Education first, also known as advanced education, requires education to face the future, so that education can be ahead of social productivity and political and economic development on the basis of adapting to the existing productivity and political and economic development level.

First, the growth rate of education investment should exceed the economic growth rate; Second, in terms of personnel training, we should take into account the short-term and long-term needs of socialist modernization, and appropriately advance in objectives and contents.

Education first is the inevitable requirement of human development.

We know that the direct function of education is to cultivate people. The process of a person's education is also the process of his own development and perfection. The social function of education is reflected through the service process of the educated to the society.

To cultivate people, especially modern people, we must use the latest educational methods to teach them the latest scientific and cultural knowledge, political ethics and morality, so that they can become the frontier force to promote social progress.

As the most active and revolutionary factor in productive forces, man has not simply exchanged materials between physical strength and nature in modern socialized mass production, but has used more and more artificial nature to materialize his intelligence with the support of his spirit, aesthetic taste and physical strength, and the transformation of this intellectual labor has become more and more frequent with the development of society.

Modern education can discover and cultivate people's potential, improve people's quality and make people develop in an all-round way to adapt to the subsequent employment opportunities and social and cultural changes. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of transporting qualified talents for the future society, education must also go ahead.