Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; Broadly speaking, it refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development. The word "education" comes from Mencius' "cultivating talents in the world" Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education".
Education is also a kind of thinking teaching, and people have another thinking tendency because of their own ideology. Therefore, education should educate people with the most objective and fair thinking, so that people's thinking will not be too biased, and gradually mature and rational because of the richness of thinking, so as to move towards the most rational self and have the most correct thinking cognition. This is the foundation of education.
The origin of education:
The myth origin theory is the oldest viewpoint about education.
The theory of biological origin is the first formal theory about the origin of education in the history of pedagogy.
The theory of psychological origin means that education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adults in daily life.
The theory of labor origin, also known as the theory of social origin of education, refers to the need that education originated from labor or labor process.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Education.