It is essentially different from exploiting class education. Socialist education is in the hands of working people, and it is no longer a tool to rule the people and a means to cultivate spiritual aristocrats.
Socialist education serves proletarian politics, and the combination of education and productive labor is a tool to cultivate a new generation of socialism with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, and an important means to build socialist spiritual civilization. Under the socialist system, education is no longer the monopoly privilege of a few people, and everyone has the right to enjoy education. With the development of socialist economy, socialist education will be popularized and improved among all residents in an unprecedented way.
The main features that distinguish it from capitalist social education are:
(1) The privilege of the exploiting class to receive education has been abolished, so that all people, regardless of gender, race, religious belief and property status, have the right to receive education.
(2) Under the guidance of Marxism–Leninism, arm students with communist ideas and modern scientific knowledge and technology, adhere to the combination of theory and practice, and combine education with productive labor to cultivate new socialist people with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.
(3) Separation of education from religion, opposition to religious interference in education, and offering religious courses in schools. Socialist society is a long historical period. Socialist education needs to adapt to politics and economy in different historical stages.