1. Education in a broad sense: any activity that enhances people's knowledge and skills, develops people's intelligence and physical strength, and influences people's thoughts and concepts. It includes social education, school education and family education.
2. Education in a narrow sense: refers to social activities with the direct goal of people's physical and mental development, mainly refers to school education, which is an activity that educators exert influence on the physical and mental health of educated people purposefully, planned and organized through school education according to certain social development requirements, so as to make them change in the direction expected by society.
3. Educator refers to the person who has educational influence on the educated's knowledge, skills, thoughts and morality. School teachers are the main body of educators and play a leading role in educational activities. Characteristics, purpose and specialty.
4. Educated people are the main body of learning, responsible for learning in educational activities, and influenced by education in a certain way. It has the characteristics of development and immaturity, plasticity and teachability, initiative and initiative.
5. Educational influence is a means of educational practice and a link between educators and educatees, which mainly includes educational contents and educational measures. The relationship between the three elements: among the three elements, the relationship between educators and educatees is the most important relationship and contradiction in the process of school education.
6. The essential attribute of education: education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people, which is the fundamental feature that distinguishes education from other things and is also the qualitative provision of education.
7. Social attribute: eternity (education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings, as long as human beings exist, there will be education); Historicity (the nature, purpose and content of education are different in different societies or different historical stages of the same society); Relatively independent (education has inheritance; Education should be influenced by other social ideologies; Education and socio-political and economic development are unbalanced).
8. Biological origin of education: Little's most obvious mistake is to equate animal instinct with education and deny the sociality of education.
9. education Theory of psychological origin: Meng Lu regarded education as a simple imitation, which failed to achieve the purpose of education.
10, education? The theory of labor origin: formed under the guidance of Marxist historical materialism, holds that education originated from the productive labor practice of human society. Labor provides objective needs and realistic conditions for education.