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Chinese
people have since ancient times been cherishing the
tradition of respecting teachers and prioritizing education.
They worship Confucius (551-479
BC) and respected him as a great thinker and educator
because, about 2,000 years ago, Confucius initiated
private schools and advocated freedom to lecture, a
move that broke the monopoly of education by the government
and make it possible for ordinary people to have access
to education. Confucius had more than 3,000 students.
After him, private schools gradually flourished as an
educational system that existed side by side with official
schools. Confucianism and Confucian classics represented
by Confucius were the main content of education in China's
feudal society.
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School
education has had a history of several thousand years
in China. There were educational organs in the Xia Dynasty
(2070-1600 BC) 21st centuries ago. Education was provided
mainly by the official schooling system, which included
a central school and local schools serving different
administrative  regions.
By the end of the feudal society, these schools had
degraded into a dependency of the
imperial examination system, through which officials
were selected.
In
China, the main objective of feudal education was to
train officials. At the same time, it created a special
social stratum in China's feudal society - the literati.
The imperial examination system was an important form
of education in China's feudal society. Beginning from
the Sui period (581-618), the
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