It is generally believed that the education process begins with a person's birth and lasts for a lifetime. Some people even think that education can start earlier. Some parents influence the growing fetus in the uterus through external words and music, and carry out prenatal education, hoping to give their children a positive and healthy development.
Chinese
It first appeared in Mencius with all my heart: "A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist. Parents exist, brothers have no chance, and they are happy; Yang is worthy of the sky, regardless of people, but also happy; " If you have the best people in the world, it is very interesting to receive education. Xu Shen explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Teach from the top and work from the bottom" to educate and cultivate children to be good. It was at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century that "education" became a common word. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, the founders of modern education in China, veterans of the Revolution of 1911, such as He Ziyuan and Qiu, eliminated the interference of stubborn conservative forces and successfully established and popularized new schools. Subsequently, under the pressure of the situation, the Qing government carried out a series of reforms in education, promulgated a new academic system at the end of 1905, abolished the imperial examination system, and advocated new schools nationwide. From 65438 to 0909, after the local imperial examination stopped, western learning gradually became the main form of school education.
The popularity of the word "education" in modern Chinese is linked with the modernization of education in China, which reflects the modern transformation of China's educational discourse from "learning-oriented" to "teaching-oriented".
the west
In the west, the word "education" comes from the Latin word "education", and the prefix "e" means "lead out" or "lead out", which means to educe what was originally hidden in the body and mind by certain means. Etymologically speaking, the word "education" in the west has an internal meaning. It is emphasized that education is a natural activity, aiming at arousing the inherent or potential quality of natural persons from the inside out and making it a realistic development state.