In addition to the characteristics of education, primary education has unique basic characteristics: first, universality; The second is mandatory; The third is comprehensiveness. Primary education institutions first appeared in Germany in16th century. They were received by towns and taught practical knowledge and Protestantism.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/7th century, the number of such schools gradually increased, and they became institutions that implemented compulsory education. After the bourgeois revolution, European countries and Japan were successively established.

In ancient times, the "primary school" that taught students to read was also called "ignorant learning", which contained two meanings: educational stage and educational place. The main contents of education are literacy, writing and feudal moral education. Textbooks generally include Qiu Meng, Saint Amethyst, Hundred Family Names, Qian Wen Zi and Four Books. There is no fixed number of years. Take individual teaching and pay attention to recitation and practice. Students who are studying are also called "initiation".

Modern schools and education systems were introduced to China by western missionaries. /kloc-At the end of 0/9 and the beginning of the 20th century, He Ziyuan, Qiu and other founders of modern education in China successfully introduced western learning (American education), established new schools, and brought civilian education into the vision of the Qing court. Under the pressure of this situation, the Qing government had to carry out educational reform. At the end of 1905, a new academic system was promulgated, the imperial examination system was abolished, and new schools were popularized throughout the country. In Xuantongyuan year (1909), after the local imperial examination really stopped, western learning gradually became the main form of school education.