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What is involution in education?
Educational involution refers to the phenomenon that a social or cultural model reaches a certain shape at a certain stage of development, and then stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model. This concept was first used to study rice agriculture in Java. In colonial and post-colonial Java, agricultural production has remained unchanged for a long time, without development, but only repeated and simple reproduction. Can not improve the unit per capita output value.

Education:

Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; Broadly speaking, it refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development. The word "education" comes from Mencius' "cultivating talents in the world" Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education". According to laws and regulations, industry norms, school conditions and professional titles, educators educate and cultivate the mental development of the educated purposefully, planned and organized, and teach people with experience and knowledge to explain various phenomena.