In ancient times, schools had very distinct hierarchical or class characteristics. For example, the children of official families are usually institutional schools established in upper-class countries, such as imperial academy in the Zhou Dynasty and Guo Zi School in the Qi State. In the Sui Dynasty, it was called Guozixue, while in the Tang Dynasty, there were Guozixue, imperial academy, four schools, law, calligraphy, mathematics and imperial academy, but these schools basically only accepted official children. The education of aristocratic children is generally the responsibility of the family at home. The education of civilians is relatively small, and there may be private schools for school in the village.

There are also government-run schools that are symbolically open to ordinary people, such as academies, Yishu and Confucius Temple. Although it is a school, ordinary people can't get in. Many ordinary people only know their names and don't know their functions. Therefore, for ordinary people, the way to learn is to learn from the master, that is, the teaching and education of mentoring, and the other is to continue the family and family education.

For Imperial College London, a school for children of bureaucrats, what they teach is also very different. "Wang Zhi" said: "Spring and Autumn teaches rites and music, and winter and summer teaches poetry." The so-called rites and music are used in higher rituals in religion. Lyrics of "Poetry is Joy". I will also teach some books and classics, history, arithmetic and so on. But in ancient times, this kind of national school was basically just a political organ, and students were just a way out of the election, which had nothing to do with what we now call academics.

The education of ancient civilians focused more on moral education, teaching students the truth of being a man and some methods to pass on to the younger generation. Then for the types of private schools, the teaching content involves four books and five classics, as well as three-character classics, hundreds of surnames, thousands of poems, thousands of words, spring and autumn. Sometimes, I also choose to learn some family instructions, miscellaneous studies and ancient literature reviews of various scholars. The teaching method of private schools, the main backrest is the so-called familiar reading into reciting, and the proficiency should reach the level that students can recite all the books they have read, no matter which sentence they ask.