Emile Durkheim is very concerned about education. When he taught at the University of Paris, he was also a professor of education at first, not sociology. Durkheim believes that education itself is a social phenomenon, so his sociology of education, like all his other theories, is permeated with the concepts of man and society. Prerre bourdaud also devoted great energy to education, and his sociology of education is the most cited, attractive and influential theory. This paper will compare Durkheim's and Bourdieu's thoughts from three parts: The first chapter points out the significance of the topic selection and literature review in the form of introduction, as well as the innovation of this paper. The second chapter is the focus of this paper, which will be compared from three aspects. Firstly, it compares Durkheim's and Bourdieu's views on 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, which is violent and hidden; Secondly, it compares Durkheim's and Bourdieu's views on educational function. Durkheim believes that education can shape people's souls, educate producers, and education is also conducive to the realization of an integrated society; Bourdieu believes that education is only a tool for cultural reproduction, class reproduction and legalization of social inequality; Thirdly, by comparing Durkheim's and Bourdieu's views on university organization, Durkheim thinks that university is a place of reason and reflection, with certain autonomy; Bourdieu believes that education universities have double arbitrariness, ...