Education is the foundation of socialist modernization. The reason is:

1. Education shoulders the heavy responsibility of improving the quality of workers and cultivating specialized talents, which is the most fundamental cause for the development and revitalization of a nation.

2. Education is the intellectual foundation of the development of modern science and technology. Developing education is a necessary condition for sustained economic growth, scientific and technological development and innovation and all-round social progress. It is also the only way to improve the quality of the whole nation, give full play to China's advantages in human resources and accelerate the pace of socialist modernization.

3. To realize socialist modernization, we must strengthen the construction of material civilization, spiritual civilization and democratic politics. The construction of material civilization is inseparable from education, so is the construction of spiritual civilization, and the construction of socialist democratic politics is inseparable from education. Therefore, education is the foundation of socialist modernization.