Modern education is produced and developed under the condition of the development and popularization of commodity economy, and it has certain connection with it. In the primary stage of socialism in China, education should actively adapt to the market economic system, but education cannot be commercialized and education itself is not a commodity.

Fertility

The main function of ancient schools was political, and they engaged in the production of traditional hand tools without school education. Modern production is based on modern science and technology, and science and technology must be transformed into real productive forces through education. Both modern production and modern technology require the combination of education and productive labor, while in universities, it requires the combination of teaching, scientific research and production.

Scientifically, modern science and technology have penetrated into social organisms in an all-round way, which not only makes production and labor scientific, but also makes daily life increasingly scientific. Therefore, science and technology education is the most important aspect of school education. Emphasizing STS education now means taking science, technology and society as a whole, studying their interrelationships and introducing them into school education.

democracy

Receiving school education and participating in school education are regarded as the rights and obligations of modern citizens. The popularization and mass of education, the rapid development of adult education, the development of traditional education to lifelong education, and the democratic equality of teacher-student relationship in the education process are all manifestations of democracy. Of course, these do not deny that modern education still has a class nature.

Developmental modern education pays more attention to intellectual development, all aspects of human potential, including the development of right brain potential and the development of human personality.