Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze cognition of middle school students on an educational institute of life. For this purpose, the three times of in-depth interviews which were performed the subjects, 6 middle boy's school student. The data passed through process of three dimension, abstraction of idea, categorization, interpretation. In this process, were discovered four category of educational institute of life. It was pilgimage, activity, system, and compare with school. The major results of this study were follows: first, an educational institute of life is natural of life to student and they accept the life themselves not coercion gradully. second, study of educational institute is repetitional and many and only for school test. third, system of educational institute is concenturated for study, in this point, students distinguish school with educational institute. fourth, in compare with school, educational institute is more comfortable than school. Also, educational institute take care of student more than school.