The social function of education refers to the role of education in social development and social life. Its main social function is to promote social change and social mobility, and its essence is the role played by people trained through education in social practice.
The social transformation function of education means that education not only adapts people to social development, but also promotes social reform and development by developing people's potential, improving people's quality, promoting people's socialization and guiding people's social practice. It includes economic function, political function, cultural function, ecological function and population function.