1. Education is an activity to cultivate people. Education has existed since the beginning of human society, and its function is to transmit social production and life experience, promote human development and cultivate talents that society does not need.
2. This basic feature exists in various social education activities and distinguishes it from other human social activities; The essential feature of education is to reflect the stability and universality of the laws of things, and the essence of education is to run through all education. As long as educational activities exist, they will always play a role.
3. Marxist pedagogy holds that education is a social phenomenon and a unique activity of human beings; Education is a unique social phenomenon in human society. Although there are similar intergenerational phenomena of "education" and "teaching" and "learning" in the animal kingdom, especially in the higher animal kingdom, these two seemingly similar phenomena are essentially different.
Main viewpoints on the nature of education:
1. Superstructure education is regarded as the superstructure of society. Rational education is a kind of ideological culture, and its nature and change are determined by and serve the social and economic foundation. Education is restricted by productivity, but it must be mediated by economic base.
2. Productivity: Education is productivity, and education can produce labor, which is labor reproduction; The development scale, speed, teaching content, means and form of education are restricted by productivity; Education is determined by the relations of production.
3, but all relations of production and superstructure are ultimately determined by productivity. The dual attribute theory holds that education has both the attributes of productivity and superstructure.