The leading role of education in individual development is that education can promote individual socialization. The so-called socialization, its "basic meaning refers to the process that people accept social culture, more specifically, it refers to the process that natural or biological people grow into social people". The individual development function of education is firstly manifested as the function of promoting individual socialization.
The individual socialization function of education is manifested in three aspects:
1. Education promotes the socialization of individual thoughts.
(1), individual concept refers to the individual's view of social things and the concept formed by individuals in social activities. The concept of individual is also the result of his thinking activities. The formation of individual concept is restricted by social and cultural prospects and practical social activities.
The process of an individual growing from a "natural person" to a "social person" is a process of accepting social culture. The process of accepting social culture, from a certain point of view, is the process of internalizing social concepts, that is, the process of socialization of people's concepts.
(2) Education plays a very important role in the process of people's concept socialization. If we have a broad understanding of education, we can think that the formation of people's ideas can not be separated from education for a moment. Even for any specific individual, different ideas may be formed in the process of socialization, but this different idea is also the result of different education. Without the participation of education, the formation of people's ideas is incredible.
2. Education promotes the socialization of individual intelligence and ability.
(1), the development of individual intelligence is inseparable from education, which has long been the consensus of pedagogy. The study of pedagogy on the development of human intelligence also reveals the social and historical characteristics of education.
(2) In the process of people's intelligence and ability adapting to social needs, the functions and functions of education are mainly manifested in two aspects: education guides or regulates the socialization of individual intelligence and ability; Education accelerates the socialization of individual intelligence and ability.
3. Education promotes the socialization of personal occupation and identity.
(1), social and professional division of labor is an inevitable requirement and an important symbol of social development. Since entering the modern society, the development of social division of labor is closely related to the development of science and technology education.
Science and technology promote the transformation of social production, which objectively requires educational reform. Modern education shoulders the mission of promoting people's professional socialization to a great extent. In modern society, individuals usually seek a certain social occupation on the premise of receiving relevant education and training, and education is a means to promote people's professional socialization.
(2) Education is also an important means to promote the socialization of individual identity. Individual identity refers to the individual's position in the whole social structure. Socialization of identity is related to socialization of occupation. A person's occupation is often consistent with his position in society, that is, his identity. In this sense, the socialization of individual identity is also based on receiving relevant education and training.