1. The three elements of education include: educator, educated person and educational influence.

2. The four elements of education include: educator, educated person, educational content and educational means.

Modern pedagogy recognizes three elements of education.

Educational elements:

Educational elements refer to the components that constitute educational activities and the internal conditions that determine the development of education. As far as educational practice is concerned, its constituent elements are:

1, educators, with their own activities to cause and promote the physical and mental development and changes of the educated.

2. After being educated, the educatee reflects the completion of the education process with changes that meet the purpose.

3. Educational influence is a means of educational practice, and it is the sum of all intermediaries that are placed between educators and educatees and link them, such as teaching materials, teaching methods, educational technology and teaching organization forms.

As far as educational content is concerned, due to the different theoretical and social conditions, its constituent elements are also different. For example, during the Western Zhou Dynasty in China, "six arts" (ritual, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics) were the basic elements of education.

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