1. The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.
2. The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes providing a good background for sustained and stable economic development, improving the potential labor ability of the educated, and forming ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.
3. The most direct function of education is to influence political development.
The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.
The logical starting point of education is naturally the emergence of human society. The transformation from apes to humans is due to productive labor, and apes gradually formed a main mechanism with brain and hand as the core. The brain can think and the hands can operate, which makes people different from ordinary animals and become "advanced animals".
With the subject mechanism, it is possible to become a subject with practical cognitive ability, and human beings can upgrade themselves to the subject of understanding and transforming the objective world, thus turning the objective world into the object of human transformation and understanding. Understanding and transforming the objective world requires subjective ability. Human society is a form of existence created by human beings in social practice.
The definition of education:
(1) In a broad sense, all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality are education. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions.
The most essential understanding of education is the knowledge instillation and behavior guidance of people's thoughts by society; First, the object of education is people; Second, the content must be benign and meaningful, so that people can transform society.
(2) Narrow sense: refers to the sublimation of individual spirit. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from the individual's perspective often equates "education" with the individual's learning or development process.
(3) In a narrow sense, it mainly refers to school education, which refers to the activities that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated in a purposeful, planned and organized way according to the requirements of a certain society or class, and cultivate them into people needed by a certain society or class. This mainly refers to the exam-oriented education in China campus.