People who were backward at that time were relatively backward in thinking. Therefore, the understanding of compulsory education is not so thorough. At that time, people understood this kind of compulsory education as scaring parents of children. Think again. Education in that era was a new word. For parents who have never attended school, no matter how the government or officials explain it, ordinary people understand that parents will suffer if their children don't attend school. Coupled with the door-to-door investigation by those officials at that time, these parents were even more afraid. I wonder if the children will be locked up and taken to school. The neighbors finally decided to send their children to private schools to avoid the wind after holding their own words.
In fact, the media at that time also criticized the opacity of government information. From a modern point of view, we can't just blame the government at that time. Compulsory education is to reduce illiteracy and popularize knowledge, which is good for the people and the country. However, people at that time were stupid couples and didn't understand education at all. Even retirement, even compulsory education, is too much thunder and too little rain for the late Qing Dynasty. Because at the beginning, it was true that tuition fees were not charged, but after a while, it changed its mind, and some tuition fees were charged, so that children from poor families could not go to school at all. In fact, whether now or in the past, it is a very good thing for children to know more words that don't blink. However, there is a "sense of bone" between reality and the gap. In other words, I think it is impossible to realize real education and free education in a short time.
In a word, education is good and the starting point is right. However, sending children from poor families to school is precisely an ideological issue. The common people think that being an official is also mercenary, and it is unfavorable to spend more money on things. Naturally, I won't send my children to school, and I will take shelter at the private school.