1. Definition of compulsory education:
Compulsory education is a national education that school-age children and adolescents must accept according to law and is guaranteed by the state, society and family. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time according to law.
2. The origin of compulsory education:
Compulsory education originated in Germany. The religious leader Martin Luther was the first person to put forward the concept of compulsory education. After the victory of reform, in order to enable people to learn the Bible, Luther promulgated the compulsory education law.
16 19, the School Law promulgated by the German Weimar Principality stipulated that parents should send their children aged 6~ 12 to school, which is the earliest compulsory education.
3. The significance of compulsory education:
Compulsory education is a basic public service for all school-age children and adolescents, the basis for improving the quality of the people, and the starting point for realizing social equity.
Compulsory education marks a country's economic development level, and a country's economic development and social progress are the fundamental conditions for implementing compulsory education, and the scale and quality of compulsory education in turn affect economic development.
The nature of compulsory education:
1. Public welfare:
The so-called public welfare means that it is clearly stipulated that "tuition and miscellaneous fees are not charged". Public welfare and freedom are linked together. Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee.
2. Unity:
Unity is an idea that runs through the whole process. This unification includes formulating the unified standards of textbook setting, teaching standards, funding standards, construction standards and students' public funds in the compulsory education stage.
3. Mandatory:
Coercion is also called coercion. It is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let school-age children and adolescents receive compulsory education. Whoever violates this obligation will be regulated by law.
If parents don't send their students to school, they should bear the responsibility; Schools do not accept school-age children and adolescents to go to school, and schools should bear the responsibility.