The restrictive effect of productive forces on education is as follows: (1) The development level of productive forces determines (restricts) the speed and scale of education development; (2) The level of productivity development restricts the specification and educational structure of personnel training; (3) The development level of productive forces restricts the contents, methods, organizational forms and means of teaching. Therefore, the factor that determines the scale and speed of education development is productivity.
The scale and speed of education development are determined by the economy.
Economy plays a decisive role in education, which shows that the level of economic development restricts the scale and speed of education development, the change of education structure and the content and means of education. Economic growth provides a material basis for the coordinated development of education.
To some extent, education refers to education investment, which is the basic form of human investment. From this perspective, the investment and management of education can be regarded as an input-output process of an industry. From the subject of burden, education cost can be divided into two parts: social cost and personal cost.