有人认为,如果说科学技术是第一生产力,那么文化教育则是第一消费力。按照这种观点,消费力与生产力相对而言,指消费者为了满足自己的物质文化生活需要,对消费资料(包括劳务)进行消费的能力。要发展生产就离不开消费,要消费则必须解放和发展消费力,而文化教育则是第一消费力。这是因为,发展文化教育,提高劳动者素质,可以提高生产力。生产力发展了,国民收入得到提高,其中一部分转化为积累,另一部分转化为消费。可见,生产力的一部分可以转化为消费力。这样,文化教育在发展了生产力的同时,也就发展了消费力。文化素质决定着人们的消费结构。因此,只有通过发展文化教育,才 Some people think that if science and technology are the primary productive forces, cultural education is the first spending power. According to this view, consumption power and productivity are relatively speaking the ability of consumers to consume consumption data (including labor) in order to meet their own material and cultural needs. To develop production can not be separated from consumption, consumption must be the liberation and development of consumer power, and cultural education is the first spending power. This is because developing cultural education and improving the quality of workers can increase productivity. Productivity has developed, national income has been raised, some of which have been converted into accumulation and the other into consumption. Can be seen, part of productivity can be transformed into spending power. In this way, while developing education and productivity, culture and education have also developed their spending power. Cultural quality determines people’s consumption structure. Therefore, only through the development of cultural education, was it