This view holds that education is an investment, that is, the stored value of funds can be reproduced. So some people are willing to invest a lot of time and money in education.
Investment refers to the process that countries, enterprises and individuals sign agreements with each other for the specific purpose of promoting social development, realizing mutual benefit and transferring funds. It is also an economic behavior that a specific economic entity invests a sufficient amount of funds or physical currency equivalents in a certain field in a certain period of time in order to obtain income or capital appreciation in the foreseeable future.
It can be divided into physical investment, capital investment and securities investment. The former is to use money to invest in enterprises and obtain certain profits through production and business activities, while the latter is to use money to buy stocks and corporate bonds issued by enterprises and indirectly participate in the profit distribution of enterprises.
Investment is a form of innovation and entrepreneurship project incubation, and it is an economic activity to promote the development of project industrialization complex with capital.
Investment is a profitable business activity in which monetary income or any other wealth owner measures its value in money at the expense of current consumption, purchase or purchase of capital goods in order to realize value appreciation in the future.
The word investment has several related meanings in finance and economy. It involves the accumulation of property in order to gain benefits in the future.
Technically speaking, this word means "the act of putting something in another place" (which may initially be related to people's clothes or "dresses"). From the financial point of view, compared with speculation, the investment period is longer, and it is more inclined to obtain some sustained and stable cash flow income in a certain period of time in the future, which is the accumulation of future income.
Human capital and the function of education;
Human capital, also known as intangible capital, refers to the knowledge and skills acquired by workers through investment in education, training and practice. Because making full use of these knowledge and skills can bring benefits to workers, it forms a special kind of capital-human capital. Education and training are the main ways to acquire knowledge and skills. School basic education gives workers basic knowledge, vocational training education supplements their professional skills, and lifelong education enables workers to gradually develop on the existing basis and continuously improve their own knowledge and skills. Therefore, education plays an irreplaceable fundamental role in the formation and development of human capital.