The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China added the word "social progress" to the expression of education status, which further highlighted the basic role of education, which was a qualitative leap in understanding the importance of education. Confucius' thought of "teaching without class" fully proves that Confucius attaches great importance to the relationship between education and social development. Confucius' "three thousand disciples and seventy-two sages" just met the needs of social and political development at that time. With the development of society and the improvement of productivity, economic development requires higher and higher education. At present, China is in a critical period of reform and economic transformation. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the reform and development of higher education, positioned higher education as an important combination of the first productive force of science and technology and the first resource of talents, established an connotative development path with improving quality as the core, and put forward the goal of building a distinctive and high-level university. It is necessary to change from one-off school education to socialized lifelong education, from meeting the needs of only a few people to meeting the educational needs of most students; Correctly handle the relationship between the enrollment scale of higher education, economic and social development and personal cultural needs; Adopt flexible and diverse ways of running schools to meet the needs of people at different levels for higher education, vigorously promote educational equity, rationally allocate educational resources, focus on rural areas, remote areas, poverty-stricken areas and ethnic minority areas, improve the level of financial assistance for students with financial difficulties, actively promote equal education for children of migrant workers, and make every child a useful talent. Confucius once said, "I have never been ignorant of tying myself up." Therefore, it can also be understood that "teaching without class" is Confucius' proposition of civilian education.