Education plays a leading role in human development.

The role of education:

(1) Education promotes the development of human subjectivity.

(2) Education promotes the development of individual characteristics.

(3) Education promotes the realization of personal value.

The initial formation of human personality began in early childhood. There are individual differences in children's initial hobbies and abilities. They have initially formed some relatively stable attitudes towards people, things, themselves and the collective, and also have a preliminary obvious psychological tendency, which shows that children are beginning to form their own initial personality.

The main functions of education are:

(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.

(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.

(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.

(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.