Education is a social practice that purposefully affects people's physical and mental development. Education is the hope of national rejuvenation and the booster of social civilization. Education has existed since ancient times. As early as ancient times, education came into being. It was only limited to the natural form of education at that time, that is, from word of mouth between people.
Formal education developed from the period of slave society, accompanied by the emergence of rigid learning places. According to China's first pedagogic work, Xue Ji, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, "the ancient teachers had a school, the party had a dilemma, the technique was orderly, and the state-owned school". That is to say, in ancient times, there were schools at home, schools in villages, orderly county towns and schools in the capital. This is the earliest record of private schools.
We can see that ancient children's learning was not only done through private schools. In addition to private schools, children can also complete their studies through rural, orderly county and township schools. Despite the changes of the times, such as the emergence of academies in the Song Dynasty. But on the whole, the division between official and private schools is still reserved.
Private schools need certain family economic conditions, and children from poor families can't afford private schools. This can be confirmed by Lu Xun's "From a Hundred Herbs Garden to a Three Ponds Printing the Moon", and can also be learned from Lu Xun's and Runtu's life experiences. The poor can't even eat, let alone invite Mr. Xue to study.