The so-called education in a broad sense refers to all activities that can increase people's knowledge and skills, influence people's ideology and morality, improve people's cognitive ability, enhance people's physique and improve people's personality. Including planned and accidental, organized and unorganized, externally instilled and spontaneously influenced. It is manifested in the upbringing of children and the prevention of foreign harmful phenomena; Make children establish initial contact with the world around them; Arm children with powerful tool language of interpersonal communication; Teach the younger generation to master production experience and production skills and skills in some form; Instill a certain ideological system into the minds of the younger generation and form a certain code of conduct.

The so-called narrow sense of education, that is, school education, is a process in which educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated purposefully, planned and organized according to the requirements of social development, so that their body and mind develop in the direction of social expectations. Education in a narrow sense emphasizes the organization, planning and professionalism of educational activities, aiming at promoting people's physical and mental development, with professional teachers and special venues and a set of systematic educational and teaching organization norms. The education of pedagogy research is mainly school education, that is, education in a narrow sense.