The large-scale education pattern formed by community education, which integrates education and management, service and cultural activities, is a breakthrough, expansion and extension of single school education. Its main functions are roughly the following six aspects:

1. Open schools to community residents, with educational facilities and venues shared by community residents;

2. Community adult education institutions are the cultural activity centers of communities, holding various cultural activities to improve the cultural level of community residents;

3. Disseminate knowledge and technology, improve the quality of community residents, and undertake community general training;

4. Help the community to improve the level of spiritual and cultural construction and improve the community environment;

5. Promote the development of all kinds of education and realize the educational integration of schools, society and families;

6. Participate in enterprise education and jointly build and develop enterprise community environment.

In a word, the main function of community education is to form positive values, life attitudes and moral norms of community residents, improve the quality and cultural level of community residents, build a good community culture and cultivate community roles. Community education will break through the disadvantages of the original education management system, form a collection of various educational elements, realize the integration of education and society, and finally achieve the goal of a learning society.