Because education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people and plays a leading role in people's development. To give full play to the leading role of education, we should start from the following aspects:

(1) emphasizes the important role of knowledge. In view of the value of knowledge in cognition, ability, cultivation and practice, education must guide students to respect knowledge, love knowledge, actively learn, creatively understand and use knowledge, and develop children's intelligence, morality and personality in this process.

② Teaching according to the law of physical and mental development. Because human development has a certain direction and order, and there are individual differences in human development. Therefore, education should follow the sequence and differences of human development, step by step, and teach students in accordance with their aptitude.

③ Cultivate students' initiative. People's development is a conscious dynamic process, which is characterized by autonomy, consciousness, autonomy and self-shaping initiative. Therefore, we should pay attention to stimulating, guiding and standardizing students' initiative.

(4) Carry out comprehensive education in physical, intellectual, moral and aesthetic fields. People are a whole, and changes in the whole will inevitably affect changes in all aspects. Therefore, education should regard students as a complex whole and promote their all-round and harmonious development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics.

It can be seen that starting from the above four aspects, we can strengthen the realization of educational functions, thus giving full play to the leading role of education and cultivating more qualified talents for the society.