The level of productivity determines the scale and speed of education; The development level of productive forces restricts the standardized training and educational structure of talents; The level of productive forces restricts the contents, methods, organizational forms and means of education.
Education has a positive impact on productivity;
1. Education is an important means of labor reproduction, which transforms possible labor into realistic labor. Man is the most basic factor in productivity. Through education, people can master certain scientific knowledge, production experience and labor technology.
That is to say, the possible labor force that has not yet mastered science and technology is transformed into the realistic labor force that has mastered scientific skills, thus forming new productive forces, improving labor productivity and promoting the development of social production.
With the development of science and technology, the proportion of mental labor in production is increasing, and the improvement of labor productivity mainly depends on the improvement of workers' scientific and technological level and the improvement of production tools, so education plays an increasingly important role in promoting the development of productivity.
2. Education is a means to copy scientific knowledge. Science is included in the productive forces. Before scientific knowledge is used in production, knowledge is a potential productivity of ideology. To turn the potential productive forces into real productive forces that people can master and use in production, we must rely on education.
Through education, we can inherit and carry forward the scientific knowledge accumulated by the previous generation and expand the reproduction of scientific knowledge efficiently, so as to popularize scientific knowledge, popularize advanced production experience, improve labor productivity and promote the development of productive forces.
Education is an important means to develop science. The function of education is not only to transmit the existing scientific knowledge of human beings, but also to undertake the task of developing science and producing new scientific knowledge and technology, especially in higher education. With universities as the main scientific research bases, there is a tendency to establish a teaching, scientific research and production consortium.