Education for safety - as a subject of education at school, at various levels of education - is considered in the context of the implementation of the educational process and the upbringing process among students. Therefore, it covers not only the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the area of counteracting various threats, but also shaping the personality, attitudes and behavior of students in difficult situations. Thus, educational impact, apart from educating, is permanently inscribed in the process of education for safety, which is why we are talking about education for (for) safety. The subject and subject of education for (and for) security is a human being exposed to contemporary threats in social life, especially military, ecological, economic, social threats or threats in cyberspace. In the context of education in the field of security, we should consider the problems of educating a young person in many spheres of his life. Hence, it is worth referring these spheres of life to education for safety. Taking as the starting point in this respect the core curriculum of pre-school education and general education at school and the content of education in the subject „Education for security”, particular attention in these considerations will be focused on moral education, health and physical education, mental education as well as civic and patriotic education. The arguments will be complemented with information about education (as a basic pedagogical category and a process that covers the whole human life) and education to safety. The problems of people’s safety (in our case, children and adolescents) are nowadays the subject of many different educational activities - educating and educating. In addition to knowledge and skills in the field of security (and counteracting threats), students should also develop attitudes and behaviors relating to various everyday situations. Thus, we enter some spheres of their lives, treated in education (for security) as its area.