Education Investment And Education Consumption

Education investment is a material base to decide the state of education development. Educational activities will be hard to develop without a certain amount of capital as its support. On one hand, education investment, a form of redistribution and reuse of national income, keeps a close connection with the economic level of a country. On the other hand, development of education contributes qualified personnel and constructors to functioning of national economic activities, and as well as brings about great significance to economic development. As a result, education investment becomes part of the whole structure of economic investment. It is a very necessary and realistic matter to understand correctly the basic relationship and its functioning patterns between education investment and economic development. And it seems especially more important for us to learn the current state of national education investment, to find out existing problems and to try to offer some solutions to them, under such circumstances as plurality of education investment channels hasn't been finally formed, and the mechanism of education investment and fund absorption has been far from maturity against the background of short supply of education funds and corresponding inadequate of chance to receive education.Investment accompanies consumption, as an economic principle goes. Since education investment has both characteristics of production and consumption, we can say that education is both investment and consumption. Education investment and education consumption lie dialectically in process of education. At present the national education investment lacks, whereupon its education chance is limitled. We are now facing with a huge and tempting education consumption market.The market, however, is still of potentiality below the farthest reach of development. The present education consumption has profound significance to economic growth especially in these days when national consumption demand is fading, and hard to arouse.Two things have influence upon the natives and their families about options of education consumption forms and degrees. One is the sense of education consumtion, the other the financial conditions of families. Although sense of education consumption is spurring up, they don't break away from the reliance on belief "going to school free of charge" based on China's Planned Economic System yet. Such composes obstacles of promoting the national education consumption. Next, the author presents his opinions on how to guide and cultivate people's education consumption sense, how to enlarge the present education consumption market, how to create a better environment for education consumers and how to supply more education chances based on both thoughts of education efficiency and education fairness. In the end, the author suggests people be alert to a phenomenon that people shouldn't expect to spend more than they can to, but consider of the corresponding burdens for that.The essay also presents some creative thoughts about ways of assembling national education investment and fund absorption. They are: to build and develop education stock system; to standardize and strengthen cooperation forms between banks and colleges, banks and students; make a big cake of education industry by introducing market mechanism into the education field.