The relative independence of education means that education has its own operating rules and development characteristics. The relative independence of education is reflected in the following aspects:

1, education has a qualitative stipulation: the qualitative stipulation of education lies in that education is a social practice that consciously transmits social experience to the educated to cultivate people. Education is the social practice of cultivating people; Education is a social practice of consciously cultivating people; Educating people is realized in the unity of opposites between teaching and learning; Education is a special social practice to cultivate people consciously.

2. Education has historical inheritance: any education has historical inheritance. The historical inheritance of education means that the education of each era has a relationship of inheritance and continuation with the previous education. Education should pay attention to inheriting and developing national traditions. It is precisely because of the historical inheritance of education that the education of all ethnic groups has its own characteristics and strong vitality.

3. The imbalance between education and the development of social productive forces and political and economic systems Although productive forces and political and economic systems have a restrictive effect on education and education has a promoting effect on them, historically, education is not completely synchronized with the changes of productive forces and political and economic systems.

Extended data:

There are two situations in which education is relatively independent of the development level of productive forces: one is that in a certain period, because people's ideology lags behind the more advanced productive forces, the ideas, contents, means and methods of education also lag behind the development of productive forces; On the other hand, under the condition of low productivity, due to the influence of cultural exchange, social transformation and even tradition, the concept, content and even methods of education may exceed the development level of productivity.

Education is relatively independent of political and economic systems. There are two situations in which education is relatively independent of the political and economic system: one is that the development of education lags behind the development of the political and economic system; Another situation is that the development of education exceeds the development of political and economic system.