Xue Ji is not only the earliest educational and teaching treatise in ancient China, but also the earliest educational and teaching treatise in the world. It is one of China's ancient monographs on laws and regulations, The Book of Rites, which was written at the end of the Warring States Period. According to Guo Moruo's textual research, the author is Ke, a student of Mencius.

Xue Ji is concise and vivid, which systematically and comprehensively expounds the purpose and function of education, the system, principles and methods of education and teaching, the position and function of teachers, and the relationship between teachers and students and classmates in the process of education. The relationship between teachers and students and classmates in the process of education.

This paper systematically and comprehensively summarizes China's educational experience in the pre-Qin period. He is concise, vivid in metaphor, fluent in style and artistic to some extent. The full text of Xue Ji 1229 is short, pithy, rich in content, incisive and profound, and it is a summary of educational thought and practice in pre-Qin China.

Xue Ji is based on Da Xue and The Doctrine of the Mean. Its content involves educational function, educational purpose, educational system, educational content, teaching principles, teaching methods, teacher-student relationship, teacher problems and so on.

The influence of later generations

Xue Ji is the first treatise devoted to education and teaching in the history of education in China and the world. It was published earlier than the Great Teaching Theory by Comenius, a great Czech educator 18900. Many of these things are not only the first in the history of education, but also tested by more than 2000 years of educational practice. Even if they are placed in the category of modern teaching theory, they still sparkle with the spark of life.

It is a valuable material for studying China's ancient educational thought and practice. The teaching principles, teaching principles and methods, and the idea of respecting teachers and attaching importance to Taoism put forward on the basis of summarizing the teaching experience of Confucianism in pre-Qin Dynasty have had a great impact on the development of pedagogy and psychology in China, and are one of the precious educational heritages in China and even in the world.