After the industrial revolution, the original secondary education can no longer meet the needs of the development of modern capitalism. 186 1 year, the state organized the "Wang Li Public School Investigation Committee" to investigate nine public schools and put forward reform suggestions. 1864 organized a "middle school investigation Committee". On the basis of investigation, the proposal of setting up three types of middle schools according to social grades was put forward, but it was not passed by the parliament because of its obvious inequality. But it has a great influence on the development of secondary schools in Britain in the future.