When did private schools begin?

According to historical records, the ancient private school can be traced back as early as the Western Zhou period. The private school corresponds to the education is private school, not all children in ancient times to use the private school way to complete the study, but also through the government to establish the official school to complete the study. Private school requires certain family financial conditions, children from bad families cannot afford to go to private school.

Education is a kind of social practice that purposefully influences people's physical and mental development. Education is the hope of national revitalization and the booster of social civilization. Education is since ancient times, as early as the ancient times, produced education. Only at that time it was limited to the natural form of education, that is, from the oral tradition among people.

Formal education, which developed from the time of slavery, was accompanied by the creation of stereotyped places of learning. According to China's first work of pedagogy, "Records of Learning", the Western Zhou period, "the ancient teaching, the family has a school, the party has a ziang, the art of order, the state of learning". Meaning, the ancient teaching, the family has a school, the township has a ziang, the county is in order, the state capital has a school, which is the earliest record of the private school.

We can see that ancient children's learning was not only done through private schools. In addition to private schools, children could also complete their studies by having ziang in the township, order in the county, and learning in the state capital. Although the times changed later, such as the Song Dynasty, when the academies appeared. But overall the division between official and private schools was retained.

Private school requires certain family financial conditions, and children from bad families cannot afford to go to private school. This can be evidenced from From the Hundred-Clover Garden to the House of Three Flavors written by Lu Xun, and also from the life experiences of Lu Xun and Leuntu. Poor families can't even eat, let alone hire a private tutor to study.