The core of modern education system is school education system, which can be divided into single-track education system, double-track education system and sub-discipline education system.
Dual-track school system: the first track is from top to bottom, and the structure is-universities (later including other institutions of higher learning) and middle schools (including preparatory classes for middle schools); The other track is bottom-up, and its structure is-primary school (later primary school, middle school) and its subsequent vocational schools (first primary vocational education connected with primary school, then secondary vocational education connected with junior high school).
Western Europe in 18 and 19 centuries, under the influence of social politics, economic development and specific historical and cultural conditions, both academic modern schools and mass modern schools for working people's children have been fully developed at the same time.
As a result, a dual-track education system of modern education in Europe has been formed: one from top to bottom and the other from bottom to top. They are two parallel series, which are neither connected nor linked, thus depriving the children of working people studying in national education schools of their right to enter middle schools and universities.
Educational system form
The Education Law of the People's Republic of China promulgated by 1995 includes the following levels of education: preschool education; Primary education; Secondary education; Higher education. The current school system in China is a branch school system developed from the monorail school system.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the monorail school system in China was not like that in the United States, but a modern production and social life. The monorail school system is not fully developed. With the development of production and society, the demand for educated workers is more and more urgent, and the monorail school system is bound to move towards the multi-track school system.
The basic direction of education system reform and development in China is to rebuild and improve the branch education system. The road now is to move towards branch education through developing vocational education after basic education, and the next step is to move towards monorail academic system through high school integration.