1. Education has the function of spreading culture.

2. Education has the function of transforming culture (selecting, sorting and upgrading culture).

3. Education has the function of spreading, communicating and integrating culture.

4. Education has the function of renewing and creating culture.

Characteristics of modern education:

The ideal and theory of cultivating an all-round individual to the real world. This is the basic feature that distinguishes modern education from previous education. Modern education is called modern education because it can put forward the goal of cultivating modern people, that is, individuals with all-round development, and put it into practice. In the past, all teachers could not do this. In other words, if you can't cultivate all-round individuals, it can't be regarded as modern education.