On Scientific And Technical Education In Song Dynasty And The Reasons For Its Prosperity

Song dynasty hasn't been the meridian in the developmental history of Chinese science and technology, but held a leading position in the world at that time. Many factors contribute to the prosperity and innovation of science and technology in Song Dynasty, in which education is indispensable. According to the relationship between science and technology and its education, the great achievements of science and technology in Song dynasty doesn't only result from education, but also means the maturity of its education in some degree at that time.Exhibiting the flourishing picture of scientific and technical education in Song dynasty, the paper tries to analysis its reasons to explore the characteristic experience in Chinese ancient times and benefit the current development of theory and practice of science and technology education in our country.The paper is divided into four parts.In the first part, the two concepts of"science and technology"and"scientific and technical education"are all-round explained, and limited into the ancient times. Then, with the demonstration of their relationships, the paper points out that the great achievements of science and technology in Song dynasty substantially are the signs of the success of its education at that time.In the second part, the paper shows the prosperity of scientific and technical education in Song dynasty once again from the angle of education, involving the improvement of scientific and technical schools run by government, its full development in private schools, classical academy attaching importance to it, the system of"passing-craftsmanship-on-apprentice"adding energy into it, and the other ways etc.In the third part, based on the prosperous scenes of scientific and technical...