Education is social and purposeful, which is essentially different from animal instinct. It is instinct for a mother monkey to teach her little monkey to climb a tree. The essence of education is to cultivate people's purposeful social activities. Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Education is to cultivate the educated consciously, purposefully and consciously. There is a relationship among educators, educated people and educational influence.

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The logical starting point of education is the emergence of human society. The transformation from apes to humans is due to productive labor, and apes gradually formed a main mechanism with brain and hand as the core. The brain can think and the hands can operate, which makes people different from ordinary animals and become "advanced animals".

With the subject mechanism, it is possible to become a subject with practical cognitive ability, and human beings can upgrade themselves to the subject of understanding and transforming the objective world, thus turning the objective world into the object of human transformation and understanding. Understanding and transforming the objective world requires subjective ability. Human society is a form of existence created by human beings in social practice.