Education plays a vital role in our life. Understanding the function of education is the key to understanding its influence on social and personal development. Education not only has the positive function of promoting social and personal progress, but also may have the negative function of hindering these developments.

Forward function

The positive role of education is to promote social and personal progress. It can improve people's knowledge and skills, cultivate people's innovation and practical ability, and promote social development and progress.

Negative function

The negative function of education is usually caused by the inadaptability of education to political and economic development, or the problems of educators' ideas and ways of thinking, and the unreasonable internal structure of education. It will hinder the development of society and individuals and have a bad influence.

People-oriented educational concept

In order to overcome the negative function of education, we must establish a people-oriented educational concept, respect students' individuality and individual differences, and ensure that education truly serves the development of every student.