In modern society, education mainly serves to cultivate talents, and productive labor mainly serves to meet people's material needs. There are many reasons for the separation of education and productive labor. Here are some possible reasons:

1. Development of industrialization: During the industrialization period, factories need a large number of workers to produce goods, so the focus of education gradually shifts to training workers. However, with the development of industrialization, production has gradually become automatic and intelligent, the demand for workers has decreased, and the relationship between education and productive labor has gradually weakened.

2. The refinement of social division of labor: With the refinement of social division of labor, the boundary between education and productive labor becomes more and more obvious. Education mainly focuses on imparting theoretical knowledge, while productive labor pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills. This division of labor leads to the disconnection between education and productive labor.

3. Reform of the education system: In the past, education mainly served productive labor, but with the reform of the education system, the purpose of education gradually turned to cultivating students' comprehensive quality. The focus of education has shifted from cultivating workers to cultivating students' creativity and critical thinking ability, which makes the connection between education and productive labor more loose.

4. The influence of economic globalization: economic globalization has brought closer economic ties between countries, and the rise of multinational corporations and international trade has made production activities no longer limited to one country or region. This also leads to the separation of education and productive labor, because the focus of education is no longer to serve local productive labor, but to serve the global economy.

The relationship between education and productive labor

In different periods of social development, education and productive labor have different relations. In ancient society, due to the low level of productivity and underdeveloped social division of labor, education was closely combined with productive labor, and education directly served productive labor. In modern society, with the improvement of productivity and the refinement of social division of labor, education and productive labor are gradually separated.