According to the different social roles of the subject of educational legal relations, educational legal relations can be divided into internal legal relations and external legal relations.

The internal legal relationship of education mainly refers to the relationship between various educational institutions, educational staff and educational objects in the educational system adjusted by educational legal norms.

The legal relationship outside education mainly refers to the legal relationship between the education system and its external society adjusted by the educational legal norms.

Judgment basis: the legal relationship within education-both subjects belong to the education system.

Legal relationship outside education-one subject is inside and the other is outside.