1. Providing knowledge and skills: Education is not only simply instilling knowledge, but more importantly, helping people acquire practical skills, learning methods and logical thinking. These knowledge and skills can help people better understand the world, solve problems and cultivate their own abilities and creativity.

2. Cultivate people's character and attitude: Through education, people can learn values, moral norms and social responsibilities, and learn to respect others, understand tolerance and win-win cooperation. All these can have a far-reaching impact on personal character and attitude, and help people get a higher quality of life.

3. Enhance social contribution: Education makes people not only consider personal interests, but also pay attention to the interests of the whole society. Through education, people understand social phenomena and begin to have higher goals, such as contributing to social welfare, environmental protection and public welfare undertakings.

4. Promote economic development: educated people can do more effective and innovative work, and also get better income and higher social status. This is not only beneficial to individuals, but also provides more talented and creative talents for economic development.

Therefore, education has played an important role in the past and now. It can help people improve themselves and promote social progress.