The inevitability of education priority
1, education first is the inevitable requirement of modern science and technology, production and economic development. In modern society, production depends more and more on science and technology. Under the guidance of the development of science and technology, many new technologies, new processes and new products are constantly emerging, technology updates are increasingly frequent, and the cycle of applying scientific and technological achievements to production is getting shorter and shorter.
According to statistics, it took 1680 years for the first machine to be invented and put into practical use, 84 years for steam engines, 73 years for internal combustion engines, 56 years for telephones, 5 1 year for motors, 20 years for generators and 14 years for modern vacuum tubes.
The third technological revolution marked by the application of atomic energy, computer and space technology in the middle of this century has made the automation level of production process higher and higher, and emerging technologies are playing an increasingly important role in production. This requires workers to have higher scientific and cultural knowledge and professional and technical level, and requires people to be educated for longer and longer.
At the same time, the requirements for education itself are getting higher and higher. In order to better promote economic development, explore new fields of science and technology, and apply the latest scientific and technological achievements to production practice as soon as possible, education must train scientific research and production talents in advance. Otherwise, it will hinder the rapid update and application of science and technology and delay economic development. No wonder the Japanese often say, "Education is an industry after 30 years."
Since 1960s, many western economists have analyzed the factors of economic growth. After years of exploration, they finally found that education plays a powerful role in promoting economic growth. Denison made a factor analysis of American economic growth from 1948 to 1969, and found that education and knowledge progress accounted for 39% of the total growth, which was unmatched by any other factor.
Strumilin, an economist in the former Soviet Union, calculated that the 30% increase of national income in the Soviet Union 1940- 1960 depends on improving the education level of workers. It is precisely because education is so important to economic development that education must be given priority in order to further develop the economy.
2. Education first is the inevitable requirement of human development. We know that the direct function of education is to cultivate people. The process of a person's education is also the process of his own development and perfection. The social function of education is reflected through the service process of the educated to the society. To cultivate people, especially modern people, we must use the latest educational methods to teach them the latest scientific and cultural knowledge, political ethics and morality, so that they can become the frontier force to promote social progress.
As the most active and revolutionary factor in productive forces, man has not simply exchanged materials between physical strength and nature in modern socialized mass production, but has used more and more artificial nature to materialize his intelligence with the support of his spirit, aesthetic taste and physical strength, and the transformation of this intellectual labor has become more and more frequent with the development of society.
Modern education can discover and cultivate people's potential, improve people's quality and make people develop in an all-round way to adapt to the subsequent employment opportunities and social and cultural changes. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of transporting qualified talents for the future society, education must also go ahead.
3. Education priority is an inevitable requirement for the development of education itself. Education has been strongly restricted by society since its birth, and constantly adjusts itself to adapt to social changes.
In modern society, how education can serve the future social development better and more effectively depends on the internal elements of education (such as the scale structure of education, the development plan of education, the formulation of educational principles and policies, the selection and regulation of educational objectives and teaching contents, teacher training, etc.). ), it must take into account the needs of future social development, and these internal factors must be constantly adjusted with the development of politics, economy and science and technology.
In other words, all these things are advanced in modern society, and their integration has formed a powerful internal cause of education priority.
Extended data
Leading projects:
Educational programs for children aged 3-5 from low-income families in the United States. Since 1960s, children from poor families can receive proper education and develop their intellectual potential by providing assistance in education, medical care, nutrition and social welfare.
Possibility of giving priority to education
Subjective aspect: Contemporary people's educational awareness is increasing day by day, and many countries have promulgated the Compulsory Education Law (China 1986) to implement free compulsory education. Many people of insight have clearly realized that whoever masters science and technology will win. The gap between countries, on the surface, is an economic gap, but in essence, it is a gap in science and technology and talents, and in the final analysis, it is a gap in education.
It can be said that education is science and technology and economy. In view of this, many countries regard the development of education as a top priority and attach great importance to it at all costs, such as extending the years of compulsory education, increasing investment in education and encouraging educational undertakings. In particular, some developing countries, suffering from "being beaten behind", pay special attention to the development of education in order to revitalize the national economy and enhance their national strength through a lot of training.
Objectively speaking, strong economic backing provides rich material guarantee for education first. In the early 1960s, the world economy provided the possibility for countries to spend huge amounts of money on education. Abundant capital investment and the adoption of advanced educational facilities have greatly accelerated the development of education, making it quickly ahead of other social undertakings and becoming the "locomotive" of the development of human civilization.
In addition, due to the changes and development of science, culture and education itself, it first provides enough content for education. It is reported that biology textbooks in the world today are rewritten every five years. The cycle of world knowledge updating is getting shorter and shorter, from 80 to 90 years in18th century to 30 years in the early 20th century, and then to15th year in the last 50 years.
Now the knowledge updating cycle of some disciplines has been shortened to 5- 10 years. The accelerated updating and aging of knowledge forces the educational content to make corresponding changes. Due to the great development of educational science and psychological science, it constantly provides new theoretical basis and theoretical guidance for educational practice, making educational methods, means, content and structure more scientific and systematic.
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