Due to the low level of productivity, education has not been separated from social life for special use, and there are no special educational institutions and full-time educators. The content of education at this stage is very simple, mainly to impart experience and technology in life. There is no class division in this stage of education, and all children and adolescents enjoy the right to education equally.
2. Ancient school education
Teachers specializing in education appeared in slave society, resulting in school education, which separated education from social life and became an independent form. School education is basically divorced from productive labor. Education at this stage is class-oriented and becomes a tool for the ruling class to rule the people.
School education in feudal society still has no task of training production workers, and it is basically divorced from productive labor. At present, education is monopolized by the landlord class, and schools are generally divided into official schools and private schools. There are distinct levels of official learning.
Ancient school education was basically divorced from productive labor; School education is monopolized by the slave owner class and the landlord class, which has a distinct class nature; The school has become a place for the ruling class to train ruling talents; The teaching content of the school is mainly classical humanities and the art of governing people; The organizational form of teaching is individualized teaching; Schools are divorced from social life, and students' thoughts and lives are confined in a narrow world, so ancient school education is a closed education.
4. Modern school education
Modern school education is closely related to productive labor, and it is more and more closely combined; The educational content of natural science has greatly increased; The task of school education is not only to train politically needed talents, but also to train production workers. School education is no longer monopolized by a few exploiting classes, but gradually becomes popular and democratic. Primary and secondary education are gradually popularized, and adult education is developing day by day. Classroom teaching has become the basic organizational form of teaching; Scientific teaching methods and modern teaching methods are more and more widely used; School education is no longer restricted by the fence, but moves towards various forms of running schools, which is closely related to society and gradually becomes an open system.
School education in capitalist society has the task of cultivating both ruling talents and production workers. Adding natural science subjects to the teaching content; In terms of teaching methods, we should adopt experimental, demonstration and practical methods that are suitable for the teaching content; School education is increasingly combined with productive labor. In order to meet the needs of production, the bourgeoisie has also expanded the educational objects, adopted the teaching organization form of class teaching system, and implemented "universal education" to give the children of working people certain educational opportunities. With the development of modern production and science and technology, the bourgeoisie gradually extended the years of universal education, strengthened vocational and technical education and launched adult education. With the adoption of teaching methods such as movies, radio, television, satellites and electronic equipment, education has become more and more popular. However, the bourgeoisie advocates their educational democratization and "equal opportunities", but their educational reality is far from it.
Education in socialist society is education that serves the construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization. It is national education, separated from religion.