Fundamentally speaking, the basic contradictions and laws that run through educational activities are the contradictions between education and social development, and the contradictions between education and people's physical and mental development.

1, education is eternal.

Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings and an eternal category. As long as human society exists, there is education.

2. Education is historic.

It is historic that the nature, purpose, content and concrete forms of education are different in different societies or at different stages of development of the same society. In a class society, education always reflects the interests, will, wishes and requirements of a certain class, which has a distinct class nature.

3. Education is relatively independent.

Education is restricted by social politics and economy, but as a social activity to cultivate people, education has its relative uniqueness.

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The essential attribute of education

The essential attribute of education is to cultivate people's social activities purposefully.

1. Education is a process from natural person to social person, which shows that education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings.

2. Education is a process of consciously, purposefully and consciously cultivating the educated, which shows that education is essentially different from other social phenomena.

3. In the activity of cultivating people, there are contradictions among educators, educatees and social needs.