On the one hand, modern education refers to a stage in the historical process of educational development, which developed from ancient education; On the other hand, it reflects some educational trends in the process of educational modernization and is a concentrated reflection of some characteristics of modern education. Its development trend mainly includes the following aspects:

① Modern education tends to serve modern economic development and social development. Modern education is the product of modern production, serving modern production and economic and social development, comprehensively promoting quality education and cultivating high-quality talents with innovative ability.

② Modern education tends to develop lifelong education. The systematic and advanced concept of lifelong education has gradually replaced the one-off traditional school education concept and become the dominant education concept, thus promoting the development of modern education to lifelong education.

③ Modern education will develop into future ideal education. Ideal education emphasizes that education should be people-oriented, serve people's development and promote people's all-round free development, which has become an important trend of modern education reform and development in the world.

In a word, modern education is constantly improved and perfected with the development of social productive forces, so that modern education can meet the needs of social development and train qualified successors and builders for society.

(2) The change of people's position and value in the development of modern education.

The development trend of modern education has correspondingly changed people's status and value, mainly paying more attention to people's dominant position, emphasizing people-oriented and serving people's development, thus promoting people's all-round and free development.