Primitive social education shows some characteristics completely different from that of shop class social education: ① the sociality and classlessness of education. The collective production and life of primitive society determines that its education is also a collective, public and social activity, without class boundaries. (2) Education is not a social activity in the college. The education of primitive society has not been differentiated from social production and life, and its main way is through productive labor and social life practice. (3) The main means of education is word of mouth and observation and imitation, because the original social writing has not yet appeared, and there are no special teaching places and teachers. At that time, the means of education were extremely simple, mainly word of mouth, observation and imitation.

The rise of private schools in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was an epoch-making revolution in the history of education in China: ① It broke the shackles of "the integration of orthodox education and teaching" and education was divorced from political activities. Completed the process of school education independence. Teachers are no longer bureaucrats, but become professional educators who make a living by educating people. (3) The object of education has expanded, the scope of education has expanded from a few nobles to the general public, and the social foundation of education has become broader. ④ It is conducive to the accumulation of educational experience and the formation of educational theories, and a number of educational monographs have appeared, represented by Xue Ji.