Introducing the private school

Definition of private school: is China's ancient society a kind of opening in the family, clan or village within the civil early childhood education institutions. It is a private school in the old days, it is an important part of the ancient private school.

Types of Private Schools:

1. Teaching halls, school halls, and village schools run by the school masters themselves,

2. Family schools set up by landowners and merchants,

3. Righteous schools set up with the income from the rent of the land of ancestral halls and temples, or with the donations of private individuals.

Phases of education in private schools:

1: Enlightenment, i.e. literacy education, about one to two years;

2: Reading education, about three to five years;

3: Education for opening lectures and composing essays with the pen, about five to eight years;

4: Stage of completing the eight-legged essays, practicing the speculation, and sitting for the imperial exams, about eight to ten years;

5: Rehearsal, constantly practicing making eight-legged essays, and striving for the examination of Xiu Cai, Jiu Ren, and Jin Shi

The teaching materials of the private school:

1. Primary text: Three Character Classic, Hundred Surnames, Thousand Poems, Thousand Character Essays, and so on

2. Intermediate text: The Four Books, Five Classics, and Ancient Writings and Guan Zhi, and so on.

Private school teaching hours:

1. Teaching time is short called "short school", usually one to three months, parents of this private school requirements are not high, but only for students to be able to read some words, can keep score, can write couplets can.

2. "Long school" is usually a year or several years, the student learning content is also more.

Principles and methods of teaching in private schools:

1. Focusing on the moral education of monks and children.

2. Mr. completely adopts the injection style.

3. Emphasis was placed on repetition and recitation.

4. Corporal punishment was prevalent.

The role of private schools: to spread the culture of the motherland, to promote the development of education, and to train enlightened children.