A: Education has an important economic function, which shows that there is an essential and objective connection between education and social reproduction. Education is an important means of labor reproduction, so it is the necessary condition of social reproduction and the foundation of social development and continuation. Social reproduction includes labor reproduction, which includes education and training. Educational labor is a kind of productive labor. Education can transform knowledge-based productivity into direct productivity. Education is a production department that is different from the material production department. Therefore, from this perspective, education is productivity. But we can't draw the conclusion that "education is productivity".