What are the characteristics of education in ancient China?

The characteristics of education in ancient times are mainly manifested in:

1. School education was controlled by the ruling class, education had a distinctive class nature, and the school became a place for the ruling class to cultivate ruling talents.

2. Education was separated from social life, school education was detached from productive labor, and school education in ancient times was a kind of closed education.

3. The content of school education was mainly classical humanities and the ruling class's art of governing people, and productive labor was despised.

4. The organization of teaching in schools was individual teaching, the educational process was one of indoctrination and passive acceptance, the teaching methods were stereotyped, and students mastered knowledge by rote memorization.

Expanded Information

There are three main types of educational thought in ancient China, namely:

1. Confucianism represented by Confucius: Confucius was the greatest educator and educational thinker in ancient China. The Confucian culture represented by him has had an extremely profound impact on the development of Chinese culture and education, and his educational ideas are concentrated in the Analects.

Confucius began by exploring the nature of human beings, believing that the innate nature of human beings does not differ much, and that differences in personality are mainly formed later in life, so he emphasized on the education of later life and advocated "teaching without prejudice".

2. Mohist thought represented by Mo Zhai: Mo Zhai taught "love" and "non-attack", and at the same time emphasized the mastery of knowledge of literature and history and the cultivation of logical thinking ability, and also emphasized the use of technology transfer. As for the acquisition of knowledge, the Mohists believed that there were three main ways, namely, "to know for oneself", "to hear and know", and "to speak". The first two are not sufficiently comprehensive and reliable, so it is necessary to emphasize speaking knowledge and rely on the method of reasoning to pursue rational knowledge.

3, Taoist thought: Taoism advocates a return to nature, "revert" to the natural nature of man, let everything take its course, is the best education.