? Education originated from labor, which is essentially a means to realize the reproduction of labor force, and through the reproduction of labor force, the reproduction of social productive forces and their existing social forms can be realized. Without the reproduction of labor force, it is impossible to reproduce social productive forces and their existing social forms, which fundamentally determines the vanguard and special important position of education in the development of the whole human society. It is also from the perspective of it as a means to realize labor reproduction that we bring education into the category of productive forces and their existing social forms.

However, with the development of productive forces and the expansion of social division of labor, education as a means of labor reproduction will inevitably be divided into various specific forms. For example, farmers combine their children with agricultural labor education in agricultural production, handicraft masters combine their children or apprentices with handicraft labor education in handicraft production, and businessmen combine their children or apprentices with commercial labor education in business.

With the division of labor between mental and manual labor, the separation of urban and rural areas, the emergence of private ownership and class, the cultivation of children of the ruling class has emerged? Governing the people? what's up A worker? School education, etc. Although the specific forms of education are various, and their nature and ownership are also different, in summary, there are only two kinds, one is the productive labor education that workers combine with their children or apprentices in the process of productive labor, and the other is the teaching established for their children by the social ruling class that is divorced from productive labor? People? Or? Management? Surgical school education. The former belongs to the category of productive forces and their social forms, while the latter belongs to the category of superstructure based on social economy. Influenced by the Confucian traditional educational thought represented by Confucius, ancient society despised productive labor and working people for thousands of years.

Up to now, some educational theorists are only interested in studying the school education that belongs to the superstructure, but few people pay attention to the productive labor education that workers combine with their children or apprentices in the process of productive labor. It is this kind of productive labor education, which is closely combined with productive labor, that realizes the reproduction of labor force, and then the reproduction of social productive forces and their existing social forms, thus promoting the continuous development of human society from low to high.