Education usually has two concepts: broad sense and narrow sense. Education in a broad sense refers to spreading and learning the fruits of human civilization, that is, all kinds of knowledge, skills and social life experience.

Social practice activities to promote individual socialization and social individualization came into being in the initial stage of human society. Education in a narrow sense refers to school education, that is, institutionalized education.

Teachers teach students a series of courses directly, including reading, writing, mathematics, science, vocational skills and so on.

In addition, people can get informal education from other channels, such as museums, libraries and the Internet. The process of education starts from a person's birth and lasts for a lifetime, bringing lasting and profound changes to people.

Some people even think that education can start earlier. Some parents influence the growing fetus in the uterus through external words and music, and carry out prenatal education, hoping to give their children a positive and healthy development.