Abstract: The priority view of a nation’s education is to show the instrumentalism value.The individual’s priority view of education is to show the teleology value.The ultimate goal of the education modernization is to promote human’s modernity.The national and individual priority views of education,which are contained in the social priority view of education,have a unity in the value system of modern education law.The value tendency of modern education is implied in the modern education law.

Key words: education, modernization, priority view