To a great extent, education is only a result of the development of social productive forces, not an absolute driving force. Although education does play an important role in the rapid development of modern human history, it is probably not the purpose of education itself. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why education has always existed in human civilization and fashion, but it has not played a role in promoting social development.
Not only the imperial examination education system, but also the scholastic education in Europe and the theological education in the Arab world are facing such contradictions.
In fact, the essence of education is that human society uses the difference between production achievements and survival needs to train a group of future generations to learn the civilized achievements of predecessors faster. This behavior is not only common in humans, but also in the animal kingdom.
Large carnivores will take their cubs to watch their hunting process and allow them to play games with each other to practice their hunting skills.
However, in the process of development, human education is increasingly divorced from the reality of agricultural or nomadic production and moves towards knowledge with no practical function.
This is the inevitable product of educational progress. Because people's ideological achievements will only be more and more, and the time that people should be educated in their lifetime is limited, in this case, they can only constantly abandon the survival skills at the bottom and make the tentacles of education farther and farther away from basic life.