Education in a broad sense: the general name of all activities that consciously have a direct impact on people's physical and mental development, including social education, family education and school education.

Education in a narrow sense: school education; It is an activity that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated through school education purposefully and in a planned way according to certain social requirements, and urge them to change in the expected direction.

2. Etymology of education

"Mencius with all my heart": being educated by talented people in the world, three pleasures are also.

"Shuo Wen Jie Zi": teaching, applying to the top, is effective to the bottom; Educate and train children and make them better.

Education is a purposeful activity to cultivate people.

1, the eternity of education

Education and human society will always be the eternal category of human society.

2. The class nature of education

In a class society, education has a class nature.

3. Historicity of education

Education is closely related to the development level of social productive forces and the ruling class system, and changes and develops with it.

1, on the origin of myth

Mythology is the oldest view of human beings on the origin of education, and all religions hold this view.

2. Theory of biological origin

The biological origin theory of education is the first formal theory about the origin of education in the history of education. Biological originators believe that human education originated from the survival instinct activities of various animals in the animal kingdom. The representative figures who advocate the origin of biology are in favor of Torno and Pei Xi-neng.

3. Theory of psychological origin

Psycho-originators believe that education originates from children's unconscious imitation of adults, and all education is attributed to the imitation behavior in the unconscious state. The representative figure is Meng Lu.

4. Theory of labor origin

The direct theoretical and methodological basis of labor origin theory is Engels' book The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man. According to the origin of labor, education originates from labor, which is the dialectical unity of social production needs and human development needs in the process of labor. Representative figures: Midinsky and Kailov of the Soviet Union.