1. Reproduction of labor force: Education can transform potential labor force into realistic labor force by improving the quality and skill level of workers, thus promoting economic development. Workers are the most important factor in productivity, and education promotes economic development by improving the quality of workers.
2. Reproduction of science and technology: Education can produce new scientific and cultural knowledge and technology, cultivate innovative talents and promote the development of science and technology. Schultz's theory of human capital shows that education can promote economic development by improving the quality of workers.
3. Produce economic benefits: Education can not only directly create economic benefits, such as transforming scientific research results into productive forces and cultivating various professionals, but also indirectly create economic benefits.
Such as improving producers' understanding of the production process and their proficiency in labor skills, operating and using tools and machines reasonably, and paying attention to the maintenance and repair of tools, so as to reduce the damage rate of tools and improve production efficiency.
The main function of education:
(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.
(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.
(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.
(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.