There are five main characteristics of ancient education: the first point is also the biggest feature of ancient education, that is, the emergence of schools, which are controlled by the ruling class and have distinct class nature, and schools have become places for the ruling class to train ruling talents; Second, education is unproductive because it is divorced from productive labor; The third point is that the class nature of education appears and is constantly strengthened; Fourthly, ancient education was orthodox, autocratic, rigid and symbolic. The fifth point is the initial development of ancient school education, which has not yet formed a complex educational system structure.