The purpose of education in our country is to cultivate "builders and successors" of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.
Modern education is a brand-new form of education in human history. With the formation of modern society, it is also the product of the development of human society and education to a certain historical stage. It is the highest stage of teaching development so far, and it is also a very important stage of human education development.
Modern education in China began in the second half of19th century. Since the 1960s, a group of intellectuals with early reform ideas have written books in Guangdong, advocating imitating advanced western technologies and systems, promoting the prosperity of the country through improvement and reform, and advocating the atmosphere of learning western knowledge.
The nine-year compulsory education system is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. The implementation of nine-year compulsory education means that school-age children and adolescents begin to receive nine-year education without tuition and fees. The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee the funds for compulsory education to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system. Nine-year compulsory education is the current education system in China.
The characteristics of nine-year compulsory education are compulsory, public welfare and popularization.
Compulsory education reform measures:
1. Increase investment in education.
2. Pay more attention to teachers' work.
3. Put an end to the trend of choosing schools.
4. It is forbidden to collect fees in disorder.