Test analysis: The material emphasizes the role of education in cultural inheritance. Education has the specific function of selecting, spreading and creating culture, and it is the active activity of human beings to inherit culture. Education plays a unique role in cultural inheritance. ① ④ The statement is correct; ② It reflects the role of education in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, which is inconsistent with the meaning of the question; Mass media is the main means of modern cultural communication. (3) is wrong. Choose c for this topic.