Philosophical reflections on education function

On the function of education,educators at all times and in all over the world have three kinds of views: omnipotence of education,environmental determinism and incompetence of education. After a clear understanding of education which is lifelong,shapeable,autonomous and extreme complex,we think that education is useful and plays an indispensable role in human development. However,the realization process of education function,full of education subject and object contradictions. As a result,education function is both knowable and unknowable. The social and life experience of educators is the only standard to test the function of education.