1. Compulsory education is an education that the state uses public resources to ensure all school-age children receive. The three basic principles of compulsory education are compulsory, universal and free. All school-age children should receive compulsory education, and the object of education is not limited by class or origin. In addition, tuition fees must be exempted.

2. This is a compulsory education system for school-age children and adolescents who have reached a certain age according to law. Because the number of years is nine years, it is also called nine-year compulsory education. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

At the beginning of this century, China achieved the goal of popularizing nine-year compulsory education and solved the problem of "education" for school-age children and adolescents according to law. After compulsory education is universal and free, the unbalanced development of compulsory education has become a new prominent problem. Let all children and adolescents "study hard" become a new goal, and strive to provide them with basically balanced compulsory education, so that every school-age child and adolescent can enjoy equal opportunities to receive qualified compulsory education.

The development of history

1. after the industrial revolution, compulsory education played a role in enabling people to master industrial knowledge, and the time of compulsory education also ranged from the earliest 3 months to 6 months to 6 years, until 9 years. Only by conforming to the scientific development level and height at that time and mastering the basic operation of industrial manufacturing at that time.

2. The meaning of obligation includes the obligation of parents and families to make school-age children go to school, the obligation of the state to establish schools to promote learning so that citizens can enjoy education, and the obligation of the whole society to eliminate all kinds of adverse effects that hinder the healthy development of school-age children. In the European Reformation Movement in the16th century, Protestant countries advocated extensive education in order to promote religious education.

3. 16 19, the School Law promulgated by Weimar, Germany stipulated that parents should send their children aged 6 ~ 12 to school, otherwise the government would force them to fulfill their obligations. This is the beginning of compulsory education. Most capitalist countries, such as Britain, France and the United States, implemented compulsory education after the 1970s.