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What is the economic function of education?
(1) Provide all kinds of manpower for economic development, including designers, technicians and managers;

(2) improve the quality of the labor force (such as knowledge, skills, experience, discipline, etc.). );

(3) Scientific research and improvement of production technology will directly or indirectly promote economic growth;

(4) Developing education and adjusting the educational structure will help solve the structural unemployment.

Extended data:

Education is the main factor of economic development, education development is the cause and economic development is the result.

After the 1970s, these views were increasingly questioned and challenged. The research of Collins and other scholars in the United States shows that the contribution of education to economy is not as much and direct as asserted by human capital theory, and the correlation between education and economy cannot be simplified;

Using "international comparison method", it is found that the average education level of people in economically developed countries is high, but this cannot prove that there is a causal relationship between them; The contribution of education to economic productivity mainly appears in the period of popularization of education, and beyond this period, the contribution is not significant; In the case of unbalanced educational structure, education may become an obstacle to achieving the goal.