Pre-school education in ancient India was divided into early and late stages with the 6th century BC as the dividing line. The early period was 1 century ago, mainly in the court. In the Gupta era in the 3rd-4th century, with the decline of Brahmanism, Buddhism rose in India, and kindergarten education gradually spread to the people. By the 5th and 6th centuries, during the GuiShuang Empire, preschool education had become quite common. After the 7th century, due to the prevalence of caste system, children's schooling was restricted. At the beginning of the 9th century, King Jerzy carried out Buddhist reform, which made monasteries an important educational institution. /kloc-at the end of 0/0, King Ashoka established a unified empire, rectified and standardized schools, and institutionalized and systematized school education. 11~12nd century, during the Gupta dynasty of Indra, the state attached importance to the development of cultural and educational undertakings, advocated universal learning and set up special schools. 15 ~1At the beginning of the 6th century, during the Mughal dynasty, new schools were established. 18 ~ 19 at the beginning of the century, after the invasion of the British East India Company, local people were forced to accept western culture, and at the same time brought some new teaching methods. At the beginning of the 20th century, the British and Indian governments issued decrees requiring all primary schools to implement English teaching. These measures have greatly improved the level of education.
The core purpose of Brahman education is to maintain racial oppression, while the basic characteristics of Buddhist education are advocating asceticism, being passive and world-weary and pursuing the afterlife. Specifically, Indian education before the 6th century BC is usually called Brahmin education. The education of Brahmanism is mainly to maintain caste oppression and cultivate religious consciousness, and the highest mission of education is to cultivate Brahmins, who have a strong aristocratic character, and the role of father plays a great role in education. In contrast, children of Khrushchev and Vish castes usually spend most of their time learning the knowledge and skills of their parents' trades, while children of sudra castes are completely deprived of the right to education, regarded as livestock and talking tools by slave owners, and often abused, punished, transferred and sold at will. In the 6th century BC, Buddhism rose and gradually replaced Brahmanism as the state religion of India, which was one of the anti-Brahmanism thoughts at that time. Buddhism advocates retribution of good and evil, reincarnation of life and death; Oppose the privileged position of Brahmanism, emphasize the equality of faith, popularize all beings, and pursue thorough understanding. The reform of Buddhism in education is mainly manifested in the following aspects: first, it advocates fourth-class equality and widely spreads people's original hope of receiving primary education; second, it emphasizes the use of dialects instead of essays for teaching. The pre-school education of Buddhism is carried out in the family.