The main functions of education are:
1. The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.
2. The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.
3. The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.
The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.
The value of education:
The value of basic nine-year compulsory education lies in solving the original enlightenment of the educated in moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education, labor education and science education, and promoting and helping the educated to have the basic skills to accept and accept social life.
Subsequent secondary and higher education, such as secondary schools and universities, has the value of solving the problem that the educated have basic scientific research, practice, experiment, experiment, imitation and innovation enlightenment. Promote and help the educated to have and accept the basic skills of production practice such as specialization, industrialization, standardization, informationization and other scientific inventions.
The value of vocational education and training lies in providing a steady stream of skilled talents for social industrialization, industrialization and economic development. Promote and help the educated to understand the post operation technology, take up their posts after training, accept and apply for various professional posts, and master the basic skills of post operation.