"Learning from politics" reveals the close relationship between education and politics in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Academics and education are not widely distributed among the people like later generations, but monopolized by the government, which is the only academic center and educational institution.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the patriarchal clan system was implemented, and the official school was Chinese studies. Only aristocratic children have the opportunity to receive education in the government, and the learning content is mainly "six arts", that is, ceremony, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics. The education system ensures the inheritance of the culture and knowledge of the ruling class and maintains the social status and ruling order.