Education is an integral part of culture and a factor in the cultural system. To study the development and laws of education, we must study culture. Culture is a non-economic factor, such as national cultural tradition, people's cultural quality, cultural structural elements, people's cultural psychological state and so on, which are all genes that constitute social people's behavior patterns. If we don't understand these categories, we can't understand their influence on education and economic development. For example, the economic development in a certain area has had a negative effect on education, that is, it has affected a group of school-age children to abandon school and do business, in which culture has restricted and hindered the development of education-people's short-sighted understanding and shallow knowledge have led to the frustration of educational development.

The influence of culture on education is generally manifested in the following two aspects: (1) Culture is the intermediary of economic and political effects on education.

That is, culture conveys certain economic and political requirements and reflects certain political and economic nature and level. For example, public opinion articles, books, movies and TV shows reflect politics in real culture, and political requirements affect education.

(b) Culture can also influence education positively and relatively independently.

For example, traditional cultural concepts and the infiltration of foreign cultures are not the reflection of the real economy, but they are affecting education.

The social and cultural level is highly related to the educational level, and the general society takes the educational level of its population as the indicator of the social and cultural level. Sociology has many indicators to measure the social and cultural level, such as the proportion of people engaged in physical and mental work, the level and structure of cultural needs (such as the number of cultural facilities such as subscribing to newspapers, buying books, enjoying art, libraries, museums and cinemas, etc.). ), cultural space, time allocation structure (such as the allocation of cultural activities time in a day) and so on.

The indirect influence of cultural level on education is: cultural development (improvement of scientific and technological level)-promoting the development of productive forces-increasing the material source of education-improving the educational level of the population.

The direct influence of education level is as follows: the education level of teachers-the education level of students-the education level of parents, while the cultural level of society and community, as well as the surrounding cultural atmosphere and cultural facilities directly affect the education level of students.