The function of cultural preservation and dissemination can also be called the function of cultural inheritance. Cultural inheritance refers to the continuation of culture in time, expansion in space and intergenerational transmission. Education realizes cultural inheritance through the joint activities of educators and educatees; Education realizes cultural inheritance by enabling human beings to master the means and tools of cultural communication. Therefore, candidates can grasp this function from two aspects: the continuity of culture in time and the flow of culture in space

(2) Activating culture

Activated culture refers to a culture that has changed from a storage form to a realistic activity form. Therefore, we can think that education can activate culture.

(3) Choose culture

Education is a purposeful, planned and systematic process of cultivating people. This process is inseparable from clear educational content. The process of determining the content of education is actually the process of choosing culture. The standard of choosing culture in education: the ruling class chooses mainstream culture according to its own needs; According to the development needs of students, choose a systematic, scientific and basic culture.

Critical culture

The critical function is the deepening of the selection function and also has the transformation function.

(e) Cultural exchange and integration-because culture is regional.

1. Educational exchange activities (international student exchange, "Confucius Institute")

2. Learn different cultures, choose and transform cultures, and promote the enrichment and development of cultures.

(6) renew and create culture

Education is not only to convey the inherent culture, but also to strive for renewal and innovation in the existing old culture of mankind with the development of the times and social changes. Make it adapt to the new social environment. In order to survive and develop, human beings must constantly create and update their own culture. It is through education that human beings internalize the existing cultural wealth into the spiritual wealth of the educated individuals, cultivate and bring up their personality and creativity related to cultural development, and make the culture develop and update.

The renewal and creation of culture are mainly manifested in two aspects: education selects, criticizes and integrates culture, constructs new cultural characteristics and systems, and makes culture constantly renew and develop; Education should create a new culture: direct way (direct production of new culture) and indirect way (cultivation of creative talents).