First, the embryonic stage of pedagogy is in the embryonic stage in slave society and feudal society, and pedagogy has not yet formed an independent discipline. The earliest book devoted to education appeared in China's Xue Ji during the Warring States Period, which was about 300 years earlier than the earliest foreign educational book "Education of Speakers in quintilian".

Second, the emergence and development of independent pedagogy 1632, the Czech educator Comenius wrote the "Great Teaching Theory", which is the earliest pedagogy work in modern times. Herbart inherited Kant's Lectures on Pedagogy and published General Pedagogy in 1806. Its publication marks the beginning of pedagogy as an independent discipline.

Third, the development of pedagogy since the 20th century, the expansion of the research foundation of pedagogy, the diversification of research paradigms of pedagogy, the further differentiation of pedagogy and the close relationship between comprehensive pedagogy and educational reform, the academic exchanges and cooperation of pedagogy have become increasingly close.

Fourthly, the theoretical deepening stage of pedagogy.