In order to understand the phenomenon of education more accurately, it is necessary to approach education through various paradigms. This article tries to explain the individual behavior from social-cognitive perspective and to understand education from the perspective. For this purpose, three traditional psychological theories on human behavior are briefly described in critic terms and social-cognitive theories of human behavior, along with the basic cognitive abilities of human beings, is explained. A model for the motivation of individual behavior, which was designed by the researcher through the comparison of major theories on human behavior from social-cognitive perspective, is introduced and the processes of motivation of human behavior are explained in detail. At the last part of this article is described the approaches to education, especially the approaches to concept of education, content of education and method of education, from the social-cognitive perspective.