The studies of education has called itself an applied discipline and imported imprudently research results from other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, and so on. So educology has lacked in its own concepts to describe human as an educational being. Philosophy of education emphasized an ethical man or a western gentleman as the goal of schooling. Educational psychology emphasized the shaped person as the product of schooling. Sociology of education also emphasized the socialized person to maintain the social order. Therefore the present studies of education regard human being as an educated person , who has a passive role in educational process. This research has tried to find the characteristics of human being as an educating person . Sang-Ho Chang's educational intrinsic principles have been hired to find the characteristics of the educating person. With the help of Chang's intrinsic principles, this researcher could abstract four characteristics of the educating person . The educating person has an incessant educational(descending and ascending) passion, tastes the lived educational experience, has an open mind for education, and has an adventurous attitude to excel his or her own mentors. The researcher found an example of human as an educating person in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Zen Buddhists have actively practiced educating through the educational relationship between mentors and disciples and developed a kind of human greatness. This research is significant in overturning the view that the educating person is only the school teacher. This research gives us a new insight to see human as an educational being, that is, an educating person.