First of all, education has the function of transmitting and spreading culture.
Secondly, education can also create and update culture, provide a large number of talents for the continuous update and development of social culture, and promote cultural change and development. In addition, education has the function of popularizing culture and improving people's cultural level, which can reduce the number of illiterate people, let more people master the knowledge and skills necessary for life and change people's lifestyle.
Third, education also has the function of integrating the world's advanced culture. Education is a part that can't be ignored in the process of human development and needs attention and respect.
Specifically, the cultural function of education refers to the role of the education system in preserving and developing culture. One of the social development functions of education. Mainly as follows:
(1) Select, transmit and preserve culture. Education provides students with knowledge, skills, norms and values adapted to social life through open courses (courses specified in the teaching plan) and hidden courses, selectively inherits cultural heritage and preserves social and cultural patterns.
(2) Creating and renewing culture. Scientific research and design in the education system, as well as education to cultivate students' personality and creativity related to culture, have directly or indirectly promoted the creation and renewal of culture.
(3) spread culture. Modern education, especially inter-school exchange (academic exchange, information exchange, joint training of students, etc. ) directly promoted the spread of culture in different societies or regions.
(4) affect the stratification of "identity culture". Different levels and types of education endow different individuals with relatively special "identity culture"-certain social expectations, self-identity, self-expectation and knowledge structure.