Productivity is the fundamental factor that affects the development of education, and restricts the development of education together with production relations, mainly in the following aspects:

(1) Productivity is the material basis of educational development and the premise of modern educational development, which includes both economic and technical conditions and objective requirements. To develop education, there must always be certain economic conditions, such as people, money and materials. The development level of productive forces is consistent with that of education. The society requires education to develop with the development of productive forces to ensure the talents needed for the development of productive forces.

(2) The level of productive forces restricts the setting of educational goals, because the level and mode of social productive forces determine the specifications of the labor force, which in turn determines the specifications of the people trained by education.

(3) The development level of social productive forces restricts the development speed, scale and student source structure of education. The performance is as follows: the ability to pay education funds directly affects the conditions such as school building construction; The development level of social productive forces determines the degree of social demand for education.

(4) The development level of social productive forces restricts the reform of curriculum and educational content. On the one hand, the development of productive forces promotes the development of science and technology, on the other hand, it puts forward requirements for the content of school education, requiring people trained by schools to master scientific and technological knowledge and production skills that are suitable for the development level of productive forces. Therefore, the content of school education is always enriched and updated with the development of social productive forces.

(5) The development of productive forces promotes the reform of teaching organization, teaching means and methods. The school's material equipment, teaching and experimental instruments, as well as some tools and technical means used in organization and management, are gradually improved and improved with the development level of social productive forces.