目前,我国教育事业严重落后于国民经济发展的局面,已成为社会主义现代化过程中的一个突出矛盾。农业教育是教育事业中的短线,随着农业生产责任制问题的基本解决,发展农业生产,下一步就要靠科学,农业教育与农业发展不适应的矛盾更为突出。探讨农业教育的作用和地位,以及如何使农业教育适应我国社会主义农业现代化的需要,是农业综合发展的一个重要课题。农业教育包括高、中等教育,在职干部的培训,农村科学普及活动等。本文着重谈谈高等农业教育的问题。一、高等农业教育在农业现代化建设中的地位和作用 At present, our education has lagged far behind the development of the national economy and has become a prominent contradiction in the process of socialist modernization. Agricultural education is a short-term course in education. With the basic solution to the issue of agricultural production responsibility system and the development of agricultural production, the next step depends on science. The contradiction between agricultural education and agricultural development is even more prominent. Studying the role and status of agricultural education and how to adapt it to the needs of socialist modernization in agriculture are important topics for the comprehensive development of agriculture. Agricultural education includes high and secondary education, training of active cadres and popularization of rural science. This article focuses on the issue of higher agricultural education. First, the status and role of higher agricultural education in agricultural modernization