The social constraint of education means that the emergence and development of education is to adapt to the survival and development of society, restricted by social development and dependent on society, which is one aspect; On the other hand, education is a subjective practical activity, which has its own value orientation and behavior choice in the process of actively reacting to social development, thus realizing the social function of education and showing relative independence. The so-called relative independence of education means that education, as a subsystem of society, has its own characteristics and regularity, and its development also has its continuity and inheritance.