Education is an activity that exerts influence according to the law of people's physical and mental development, which can consciously mobilize the subjective initiative of the educated and has high efficiency.

Education is a controllable activity organized to promote human development in a specific environment. It teaches the scientific and cultural achievements accumulated by human beings to the educated, and systematically and continuously affects the development of human beings according to certain goals and directions. Education can control some factors in the environment, make use of positive factors and overcome negative factors. The leading role of education is relative and conditional, which is restricted by children's genetic quality and social environment.

Education can only make use of children's genetic quality, but can't change it. It can only use some influences of social environment, but can't decide and change the whole social environment.