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Primary school is a school where people receive primary formal education. It is an important part of basic education and belongs to the category of nine-year compulsory education.
With the development of society, kindergartens have opened in front of it. Generally, 3-6 years old are kindergarten-age children, and 6- 12 years old are primary school-age children. At present, the length of primary education is 6 years (5 years in a few places). After the primary education stage, it is the secondary education stage, that is, from primary school to junior high school (junior high school for short).
On July 5, 2023, the website of the Ministry of Education released the statistical bulletin of national education development in 2022. There are 0/491000 ordinary primary schools and 76,900 primary school teaching points in China. Primary school enrollment17013900; There are 6.6294 million full-time teachers in primary education.
In addition to the characteristics of education, primary education has unique basic characteristics: one is universality, and the other is compulsory. Primary education institutions first appeared in Germany in16th century. They were received by towns and taught practical knowledge and Protestantism.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/7th century, the number of such schools gradually increased, and they became institutions that implemented compulsory education. After the bourgeois revolution, European countries and Japan were successively established.
The primary school stage is dominated by comprehensive courses. Morality and life, Chinese, mathematics, physical education and fine arts (or music and fine arts) are offered in the lower grades of primary schools; Moral and society, Chinese, mathematics, science, foreign languages, comprehensive practical activities, physical education and art (or music and art) are offered in the middle and senior grades of primary schools.
Primary school is called "primary school", which refers to the education stage from grade one to grade four. Those who pass the fourth grade will get a "junior high school" education. In 1970s, primary schools were generally established in underdeveloped rural areas of China.
Rural schools in many areas are compound classes of primary schools with "one school, one teacher, one class". A teacher attended all the courses in four grades. Primary and secondary education is of great significance to eliminating illiteracy.