Economically, due to the extensive application of iron tools and Niu Geng plough, agricultural productivity has been greatly improved. The change of economic situation broke the slavery production relations and accelerated the gestation and maturity of feudal production relations.

Politically, in order to protect their own interests, the emerging landlord class actively demands participation in social and political life and political reform. This downward trend of economy and politics is a prerequisite for the emergence and development of private schools.

Culturally, the Spring and Autumn Period (770-474 BC) was an era of rapid social unrest. The official school declined, and the aristocratic children of slave owners enjoyed hereditary privileges and could become rulers without learning, thus the original official school lost its class foundation and existed in name only.

Meaning:

1. The emergence and development of private schools have adapted to the needs of social development, and made indelible contributions in the process of preserving, inheriting, developing and perfecting China's traditional culture and improving the moral level of the Chinese nation.

2. The emergence and development of private schools has broken the situation that education has been monopolized by the state since the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, "learning to be excellent is to be an official" and "courtesy is not inferior to Shu Ren", which has effectively promoted the widespread spread of ancient academic culture in China and the downward movement of academics, and the arrival of the era of a hundred schools of thought contending.

3. The emergence and development of private schools have trained a large number of talented students, scholars, educators and political commentators, such as Confucius and Mencius of Confucianism, Mozi of Mohism, Laozi and Zhuangzi of Taoism, Shang Yang of Legalism and Han Fei.

They were active in the social stage during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, criticizing the current disadvantages and exploring and innovating, which played an important role in promoting the social, political, economic, scientific and cultural development during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Extended data:

Free teaching and teaching in private schools also directly promoted the formation of various schools. Schools representing different classes and different interests of different classes have launched fierce ideological struggles with each other, so there has been an unprecedented academic prosperity in which a hundred schools of thought contend. The contention of a hundred schools of thought originated from the contention between Confucianism and Mohism during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which formed a spectacular situation of contention in hundred schools of thought during the Warring States Period.

Among them, Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism and Legalism have the greatest influence and are closely related to education. Schools and schools in the same school struggle and influence each other, and put forward many questions and opinions in many fields of knowledge, constantly deepening people's understanding of nature and society.