The main features of modern education are: (1) The development of education is increasing rapidly. Nowadays, the development of education in the world is in a period of revolutionary change, and its growth mode has the following characteristics: ① large scale: not only the number of people receiving formal primary and secondary education has increased, but also the number of people receiving adult education has increased. (2) Rapid growth: the number of primary schools, middle schools and universities is abnormally developing. ③ Imbalance: Education in developed countries is growing faster than that in developing countries; In many countries, secondary and higher education is growing faster than primary education. ④ Volatility: Due to the sharp increase or decrease of population in different years, the scale of education at all levels has correspondingly increased, resulting in vacancy. (2) Major changes in the educational system and structure. For example, the structure of higher education is diversified, and a large number of higher vocational colleges have emerged. There are junior colleges in the United States, short-term universities in Japan and colleges of science and technology in Britain. Besides formal full-time education, there are also informal higher education. Vocational education, distance education, adult education and other types of education have emerged in contemporary China. (3) Expanding the connotation of education. Education includes formal school education, informal education and informal education. Regular school education is the number of years for school-age students to complete their studies and obtain education certificates; Informal education is a learning form that adults or children choose outside any formal education system, and it is an organized and systematic learning activity. Informal education is an unorganized and unsystematic lifelong process acquired by individuals in their daily experience and social life environment. (4) Education is playing an increasingly important role. (5) Educational inequality still exists. The development trend of world education in the 20th century is the democratization of education, which has made a big step towards equality, but inequality still exists. Regional inequality, differences between developed and developing countries, and most adult illiterates are concentrated in developing countries; It is also manifested in gender inequality, which has been widespread in many countries for a long time and is related to the traditional culture, customs and religious beliefs of a certain society.