What is the purpose of ancient education in China? What is the difference between modern education and modern education?

In ancient times, teachers were the most important, but in modern times, students are the most important.

The ancients believed that the most fundamental education was "self-cultivation" education or moral education. The Analects of Confucius records that Confucius offered four courses for students, namely, literature, conduct, loyalty and faithfulness, among which three courses belong to the category of ideological and moral education. The tutor plan designed in Sima Guang's Miscellaneous Books puts moral education in the first place in family education, starting from "life", and according to the principle of step by step, implementing different cultivation education contents for different stages of children's growth, guiding future generations to make strict choices in reading, avoiding "confusing their ambitions" and striving to "cultivate their morality".

Teachers are mountains, students are water, and water always turns around mountains. Teachers are mountains, wisdom is water, and wisdom reflects lofty mountains. Mountains and rivers depend on each other, and mountains and heavy waters have no way to doubt. Everyone is both a student and a teacher, a teacher and a student. Ignorance of the heart is like grass under the mountain, which may have no end, so it is our permanent task to be ignorant.

Modern education: people-oriented, all-round development, quality education, creativity, subjectivity, openness, diversity, ecological harmony, individuality and systematicness.