First, the spirit of "openness, equality and survival of the fittest" in the imperial examination promoted the development of education.
The imperial examination system flaunts the principle of fair competition and emphasizes the openness, justice and equality of all candidates in the competition. The concept of equality advocated by the imperial examination system has been inherited by today's society in many aspects, giving grassroots people the opportunity to change their living conditions through their own efforts. If people want to change their status, they must receive education, which objectively promotes the development of education.
Second, the development of school education in China has not gone out of the misunderstanding of the imperial examination era.
After the formation and continuous improvement of the imperial examination system in Sui and Tang Dynasties, school education gradually went astray, instead of imparting practical knowledge, it taught some so-called "sages' works" for the imperial examination and talked about the truth of governing the country and keeping the country safe, and school education became a vassal of the imperial examination.
However, in today's society, school education does not seem to have gone out of the misunderstanding of the imperial examination era. Everything is for exams, everything is for further study, and the fundamental purpose of school education is not to cultivate talents who are useful to society.
Thirdly, the current college entrance examination system in China is indirectly derived from the imperial examination system.
Since the founding of New China, education in China has developed rapidly and many institutions of higher learning have been established. Following the ancient imperial examination system, the state implemented the college entrance examination plan and recruited college students through the national unified examination. However, during the Cultural Revolution, the country adopted the form of recommending to go to college, which caused many disadvantages and had to resume the college entrance examination at 1977.
Practice has proved that in contemporary China, there is no better enrollment form than the college entrance examination. In this respect, the influence of the imperial examination system is immeasurable.
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The influence of imperial examination system in Sui and Tang Dynasties on education at that time;
The imperial examination system in Sui and Tang Dynasties broke the door politics and its monopoly on culture and education since Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, shifted the focus of culture and had an important impact on culture and education at that time.
The imperial examination system is an important part of the cultural and educational policies in the Tang Dynasty. It closely links reading, taking an exam and being an official, and stimulates the enthusiasm of scholars for learning. It is based on the principle that a five-foot man is ashamed to speak, which promotes the development of school education.
To become a scholar, a scholar should be proficient not only in Confucian political philosophy, but also in language, literature, history, geography, law and even nature. Most of the famous scholars who were born in the imperial examination in history were very knowledgeable.
For example, Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, was such a "generalist". Confucius advocated "education without distinction" in education, that is, all people, rich or poor, high or low, enjoy the right to education equally. The imperial examination inherited this idea of equality, and the selection of scholars was equal and competitive, so that Confucius' educational thought of "teaching without distinction" could be implemented.