First, the decision and restriction of productive forces on education

(1) The development of productive forces restricts the development level, scale and speed of education. The development of education needs certain material conditions such as manpower and material resources to ensure it. The development of productive forces provides material conditions for education, and also requires the corresponding development of education to provide needed talents for material production.

If education can't keep up with the development requirements of productive forces, economic development will be affected by the lack of talents; On the other hand, if the development of education exceeds the bearing capacity of productive forces and takes up too much human and financial resources, it will hinder economic development.

(2) The development level of productive forces restricts the changes of educational structure and talent specifications. The development level of productive forces puts forward certain requirements for the specifications of cultivating people, requiring the educated to have a certain cultural level and the knowledge and technology needed for production. The development of productive forces will inevitably lead to changes in the educational structure. What kind of schools and majors to set up and the proportion between schools at all levels and majors are all restricted by the development level of productive forces and industrial structure.

(3) The development of productive forces restricts the content and means of education. The development of productive forces promotes the development and renewal of science and technology, and also inevitably promotes the development and renewal of teaching content. /kloc-before the 0/4th century, the natural science courses in school education were generally only arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and other disciplines; 14 to 16 century, the school added geography and mechanics.

/kloc-After the 7th century, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, zoology, botany and other disciplines were added. The development of productive forces has promoted the reform of teaching methods and teaching organizational forms, such as physical and chemical experiments, slide and film demonstration teaching, the emergence of class teaching organizational forms, the emergence of radio and television teaching, and the application of computers in teaching, which are closely related to the development of productive forces.

Of course, the role of productive forces in education is always influenced by the relations of production. Although the development of productive forces provides material conditions for the development of education, it cannot determine the development of education alone. Productivity and relations of production act on education at the same time.

Second, the role of education in promoting productivity.

The development of productive forces promotes and restricts the development of education, and education also plays a great role in promoting the development of productive forces. This is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

(A) education is the basic way of labor reproduction. The quality and quantity of labor force is an important condition for the development of productive forces, and education bears the heavy responsibility of reproducing labor force. The educational reproduction of labor force is embodied in the following aspects: education transforms potential productivity into real productivity; Education can improve the quality and quality of the labor force, so that it can acquire certain labor skills and skills and become a developed professional labor force.

Education can change the form of labor force, train simple labor force into complex labor force, and train manual workers into mental workers; Education can make the labor force develop in an all-round way, improve its transformation ability, and get rid of the one-sided situation of individual development caused by modern division of labor.

Education is the most effective form to copy scientific knowledge.

Education is an important means to realize the reproduction of scientific knowledge, which can effectively expand the reproduction of scientific knowledge, so that the scientific knowledge originally mastered by a few people can be mastered by more people in a short time, thus popularizing scientific knowledge, popularizing advanced production experience, improving labor production efficiency and promoting the development of productive forces.

1. The reproduction of scientific knowledge realized in the process of school education is an infinite and eternal reproduction;

2. The reproduction of scientific knowledge realized in the process of school education is an expanded reproduction;

3. Reproduction of scientific knowledge through the process of school education is an efficient reproduction.

(3) Education is an important foundation for creating and developing new technologies.

1. Education can not only reproduce scientific knowledge through teaching, but also realize the production of scientific knowledge and new productive forces through scientific research;

2. Colleges and universities are the main force of basic research and interdisciplinary research, and also play an increasingly important role in applied research.