In slave society, with the improvement of productive forces and the emergence of surplus products, education through labor and production alone can no longer meet the needs of society. As a result, education began to differentiate from daily social life, and there appeared such specialized educational institutions as schools and staff specialized in education, and mental work and manual work began to separate.

At the same time, schools in slave society despised working people and did not teach production knowledge. The main content of school education is six arts, the purpose of which is to let the children of slave owners learn etiquette, art of war and other skills of governing the country. Therefore, the separation of school education and productive labor began in slave society.

Characteristics of slave society:

Slave society refers to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The so-called slave society refers to the prevailing slavery in the society at that time, the relationship between oppression and oppression in which slave owners owned land and forced slaves to cultivate collectively. Primitive society has the characteristics of no exploitation and no oppression because of its extremely low level of productivity. Instead of primitive society, it was the most cruel exploitation and oppression in slave society.