Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.
The significance of compulsory education
Compulsory education is a universal, compulsory and free school education for all school-age children and adolescents according to law. It is the basis of improving national quality and the starting point of realizing social equity. Receiving compulsory education is the basic right of citizens, implementing compulsory education is an important duty of the government, and supporting compulsory education is the common task of the whole society.
Compulsory education has always been the top priority of China's educational reform and development. At the beginning of this century, China achieved the goal of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, and first solved the problem of "education" for school-age children and adolescents according to law. After compulsory education is fully popularized and free, the state clearly regards the balanced development of compulsory education as the top priority of compulsory education, and strives to achieve the goal of "good study" for all school-age children and adolescents.
Extended knowledge
15 Free education refers to compulsory education in Europe and America. Most states have 13, and many states are currently transitioning to 15. In the United States, the basic education provided by public schools is collectively called K- 12 education, which is the floorboard of free compulsory education from kindergarten to high school 13 years.
At the same time as 15 realized free education, it began to implement free university education. The Governor of New York, Cuomo, announced that he would start to provide free higher education for students from low-and middle-income families in new york, becoming the first state in the United States to implement free university education, which shows that the United States attaches importance to the next generation of education.
With the development of modern science and technology, the content of textbooks formulated by countries in the last century has failed to keep up with the needs of the times. The rapid development of Internet, big data, aerospace, artificial intelligence, quantum physics and other technologies has forced countries to strengthen the intensity and duration of compulsory education.
From 2007 to 20 17, China's Macao, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Daliangshan and the eastern coastal developed areas successively implemented free education covering 15 years, while secondary vocational education was free. Shaanxi will fully implement pre-school 1 to senior high school 13 free education and promote free secondary vocational education.