Certain social relations restrict the development of education and the realization of the social nature and function of education. But at the same time, education is also required to serve these relations, especially to maintain and develop the economy and politics of a certain society and give full play to the social function of education. Because of this, education is historic.
Although Marx and Engels emphasized that the nature of social relations determines the social nature of education, they also believed that education was restricted by multiple factors, and education was relatively independent and inherited from social relations.
Marx and Engels also stressed that since the class essence of capitalist education comes from capitalist private ownership and the form of bourgeois possession of education, only by creating a new social relationship to replace capitalist society to eliminate private ownership and class differentiation can bourgeois education and all "class education" be finally eliminated.
Due to the complex relationship between education and society, Marx pointed out: "On the one hand, in order to establish a correct education system, we need to change social conditions; on the other hand, in order to change social conditions, we need a corresponding education system. So we must proceed from reality. "