思想政治教育与文化在终极目标上的一致性决定了二者在发展路径上的依赖性,从而得以为思想政治教育的功能拓展提供了可行的文化路径。追踪人类文化发展史,文化始终保持在纵向和横向两个维度上的整体推进的发展路径,而在文化路径的引导下,思想政治教育则呈现出由单一向全面、分化向整合、自我保存向自我更新的拓展趋向。 The consistency of ideological and political education and culture in the ultimate goal determines their dependence on the development path and thus provides a feasible cultural path for the functional expansion of ideological and political education. Tracing the history of the development of human culture, culture has always maintained a path of development that is advancing as a whole in terms of both vertical and horizontal dimensions. Under the guidance of the cultural path, ideological and political education has emerged from a single to a comprehensive, differentiated, integrated, self- Self-renewal trend of expansion.