1, school education, that is, all levels and types of education in schools. The characteristics are: there are fixed places, specialized teachers and a certain number of students, and there are certain training objectives, management systems and prescribed educational contents;
2. Family education, that is, mutual education between family members, usually refers to the education of family members by parents or other elderly people. Family education is an important part of the whole social education, with irreplaceable characteristics and functions: basic, infectious, targeted, long-term, flexible and social;
3. Social education in a broad sense refers to social activities aimed at consciously cultivating people and benefiting their physical and mental development. In a narrow sense, it refers to the education implemented by social, cultural and educational institutions other than families and schools;
4. Self-education refers to self-study activities and facilities organized by people spontaneously, as well as self-examination and self-study;
5. The education of natural form refers to the phenomenon that the experience of production and life is transmitted orally in the process of production and life.