If you want to occupy a place at the top of Byzantine society, the first condition is to have a certain economic foundation, and then you must have the ability to deal with administration and military affairs. Whether you can work in administrative institutions depends mainly on your personal ability. Constantinople has an education system for children of aristocratic families. Here, culture is not only a kind of enjoyment, but also a sign to distinguish social regions, but also a need. Judging from the main dome structure of Byzantine architecture, the improvement of cultural literacy will be promoted to a certain position by Byzantines, and education as an indispensable link to acquire knowledge can be imagined.

The education of Byzantines mainly comes from the traditions of classical Greece, Rome and Christianity, emphasizing the accurate memory of classic texts and the profound understanding of the heritage of ancient civilization according to the ideological principles of Christianity. The combination of these two seemingly opposite cultural factors was the characteristic of Byzantine education before the 7th century, which led to the corresponding Byzantine education methods and contents. After the 7th century, due to the development of the church, Byzantine education was once monopolized by the church, and secular education was mostly conducted by private teachers and parents at home. It was not until the elephant destruction movement that secular education regained the opportunity of synchronous development.

Byzantium inherited the ancient Greek and Roman culture and the ancient Greek tradition of attaching importance to education. The high development of Byzantine culture is directly related to its perfect education system. In the Byzantine Empire, receiving a good education became everyone's wish, and the lack of education was considered as a misfortune and shortcoming. Almost every family's parents think it is foolish not to educate their children properly, and even think it is a crime. Every child will be sent to school as long as family conditions permit. Public opinion satirizes uneducated people, even some uneducated emperors and senior officials will be ridiculed for being uneducated.

Heracles (or Samson), an 8th-century silk fabric existing in the Victoria Museum in London, hunted lions by hand. All walks of life in the Byzantine Empire had the opportunity to receive education, but the degree of education would vary with social status and wealth. Due to the limitations of the times, what kind of education Byzantine students could receive at that time first depended on the teachers' abilities and preferences. Almost all the children of princes and nobles have the experience of learning from famous people. Arsenius (354 ~ 445), the most famous Byzantine scholar in the 4th and 5th centuries, was hired by Emperor Theodosius I as the teacher of two princes. Fortius (8 10 ~ 893), a great scholar in the 9th century, the patriarch of Constantinople, served as a court teacher for the children of Emperor Vasily I, 163. Although middle and lower class children can't be educated at home like upper class children, they also have the opportunity to study at school.