Emile Durkheim was very concerned about education-when he taught at the University of Paris-he was also a professor of education at first-not a professor of sociology. This paper will compare the thoughts of Durkheim and Bourdieu from three parts.

The connotation of education

Durkheim tends to think that education is a kind of free education and a positive and reflective force for change. Bourdieu thinks that education is a kind of reproduction with violence and concealment.

Function of education

Durkheim believes that education can shape people's souls, educate producers, and education is also conducive to the realization of an integrated society; Bourdieu, on the other hand, thinks that education is only a tool for cultural reproduction, class reproduction and legalization of social inequality.

University organization

Durkheim believes that universities are places of reason and reflection and have certain autonomy; Bourdieu believes that education universities have double arbitrariness.