Educational progress leads social development. Science and technology are the primary productive forces. It is education that promotes scientific and technological changes and thus leads the development of society. Individuals are only materials processed by education, and their development must meet the needs of society. The purpose of education is to cultivate individuals into citizens who conform to social norms, so as to maintain social stability and continuity.

The value of education lies in discovering, excavating, exerting, forming, guiding and limiting people's value. Spiritual value is the highest value of human beings, the fundamental difference between human values and other things, and its essence is the value of knowledge, ability and ideology. To form people's value through education is to form people's spiritual value through valuable knowledge, ability and moral education.

The value of educational products and processes.

The former refers to the value of educational products created by educational activities to meet certain social, political, economic and cultural needs; The latter refers to the value of the educational process that meets certain educational purposes.

Value in education and value of education. The former refers to the value of cultivating students in education; The latter refers to what kind of activities can effectively gain the value in education. Educational value is characterized by the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, absoluteness and relativity, historicity, class and inheritance.