Through education, people can acquire knowledge and skills, improve their own quality and ability, and thus create more value for society. Education can not only provide people with vocational skills and knowledge, but also promote economic development and innovation, and promote scientific and technological progress and social progress. Therefore, education has important economic significance in modern society.
Provide political consensus for economic development through ideological and political education. Strengthen ideological and political education, let the people deeply understand Socialism with Chinese characteristics's economic system, economic system, economic line, principles and policies, and reach a consensus on political principles. Education can retain and inherit the accumulated knowledge of human beings, constantly expand, increase and enrich, and actively promote social prosperity and production development.
The development history of educational economic function
On the research of economic function, in 1960s, American scholar Schultz and others put forward the theory of human capital, which holds that education is the main factor of economic development, the development of education is the cause and the development of economy is the result. After the 1970s, these views were increasingly questioned and challenged. The research of Collins and other scholars in the United States shows that the contribution of education to economy is not as much and direct as asserted by human capital theory, and the correlation between education and economy cannot be simplified.
It is found that the average education level of people in developed countries is high by international comparison method, but this cannot prove that there is a causal relationship between them. The contribution of education to economic productivity mainly appears in the period of popularization of education, and beyond this period, the contribution is not great. In the case of unbalanced educational structure, education may become an obstacle to achieving the goal.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Educational Economic Function