1, transfer function.

Education transmits culture, so that the new generation can quickly, economically and efficiently occupy the cultural wealth created by human beings. Make people change from a "natural person" without cultural content to a "cultural person" with cultural appreciation and creative ability. Man is the creator and inheritor of culture. People are the inheritors of culture first, and then the creators of culture.

2. Select the function.

Education is a purposeful, planned and systematic process of cultivating people. Education can't transfer all human cultural knowledge to the educated in a certain period of time, so it is necessary to determine the content of education. In the historical period when many cultural concepts conflict, it is obvious that education chooses culture.

3. Innovative functions.

Education not only conveys the inherent culture, but also strives for renewal and innovation in the old human culture with the development of the times and the changes of society. Make it adapt to the new social environment. For its own survival and development, human beings must constantly create and update culture. Through education, human beings transform the existing cultural wealth into the personal spiritual wealth of the educated, cultivate and create their personality and creativity related to cultural development, and make the culture develop and update.