Education usually has two concepts: broad sense and narrow sense. Education in a broad sense refers to all social practice activities that spread and learn the achievements of human civilization, that is, all kinds of knowledge, skills and social life experiences, in order to promote individual socialization and social individualization, which originated from the primary stage of human society;

Education in a narrow sense refers to school education, that is, institutionalized education. Education in a broad sense includes all aspects of social treatment, such as family education, etiquette and other civilized social education.

In school education, teachers directly teach students a series of courses, including reading, writing, mathematics, science, history and so on. In contrast, vocational education only teaches a single vocational skill.

In addition, people can get informal education from other channels, such as museums, libraries, the Internet and life experiences. Other new educational methods are gradually emerging.

Up to now, the right to education has been regarded as a basic human right, which has been recognized by the European Convention on Human Rights published by 1952 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights published by 1966.

Extended data etymology:

In Chinese, the word "jiao" is the word of knowing, and the word "jiao" comes from filial piety, which is both a form and a sound. The "Yi" shape is a stick or whip held by hand.

The word "education" is like a woman giving birth in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Above is the word "mother" and the decoration on the head, and below is the word "child" upside down. From the beginning of the creation of Chinese characters, it shows that education is a mandatory and guiding behavior to make people conform to social norms.

History:

Education in China can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, starting with China's classic works, not religious organizations. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ousted a hundred schools of thought, Confucianism became the main professor and learning direction of education in China.

In ancient China, educated officials were appointed to manage the empire, while the imperial examination system, which was mainly used to select officials in later generations, was established in the Sui Dynasty, and it was only after the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Song Dynasty that it was perfected.

Education in Song Dynasty was developed. Su Shi said in "Revelation of Xie Fan" that "those who interpret Lei Ji and write inkstones have ten rooms and nine rooms". It was officially abolished in the late Qing Dynasty 1905 and replaced by western education.