Compulsory education is a national education that school-age children and adolescents must accept according to law and is guaranteed by the state, society and family. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time according to law.
In fact, this is a compulsory education system for school-age children and adolescents according to law. The annual limit is nine years, which is also called nine-year compulsory education. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education.
Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular. During the Republic of China, it was generally believed that the illiteracy rate was 80%. For example, Chairman Mao put forward in his report 1945 "On Coalition Government": "It is an important task for the new China to eliminate illiteracy among 80% of the population."
Just after the founding of New China, the central leadership has reached the education level of developed countries in one step, which reflects the firm belief that no matter how poor the country is, it cannot be poor in education.
The main influence of compulsory education
1, which points out the fundamental direction of balanced development of compulsory education. In the last century, due to the differences of economic and cultural levels in different places, the compulsory education stage formed a big development gap between regions, between urban and rural areas and even between schools. With the development of economy, this gap is widening.
2. It is clear that compulsory education bears the important mission of implementing quality education. In the past, the implementation of compulsory education was mainly to solve the problems of children's reading and learning, not to mention quality education.
3. Return to the essence of free compulsory education. Universal education, compulsory education and free education are the essential characteristics of compulsory education. Free steps can be implemented step by step according to the national conditions, but the characteristics of free education must be adhered to. Public welfare is the characteristic of the whole education, and compulsory education should be more thorough, not only universal compulsory education, but also free.