The Relationship Between Imperial Examination And Public School Of Qing Dynasty

As a political system for selecting civil officials, Imperial Examination has a close relationship with public school, which was the formal educational institution in ancient China. The essential relationship between Imperial Examination and public school is equal to that of examination and education. Studying the historical experience deduced from them gets important realistic meaning to steer the current practice, especially the relationship between the entrance examination and education.In spite of rich achievements of studying Imperial Examination in volume, the study expertise in Imperial Examination and public school of Qing dynasty is rare. In the dissertation, the author focus on the relationship between imperial examination and public school of Qing dynasty to explore the positive effects and the negative ones that Imperial Examination brought to public school education, and also, the deep-rooted reasons behind them. Through the research, the dissertation hopes to deduce some conclusions and laws which can be used as references to the current practice.This study considers that Imperial Examination is one of selective examinations, whose goal is to get the rare social resources and it has essential difference from the qualification examination. Imperial Examination system is away from the process of public school education, and the latter is under the control of the former by contents,forms and goals. The differences in content,form and target between Imperial Examination and public school are the root contradiction of them. Their contradiction had been lasting from Tang dynasty to the end of Qing dynasty. For this special contradiction, Imperial Examination was the goal of public school education, and correspondingly, the imperial examination to the public school was an instrumentality. The confined, stiff content and forms of Imperial Examination, [0]conflict with profuse content and multiplex goals of public school, led to its abolishment at last. College Entrance Examination is one kind of selective examinations either, which is oriented and confined powerfully to education. We can get some inspiration brought from Imperial Examination and public school education as references to current educational problems, such as the problems of"one-sided pursuit of the rate of entering college"and"save or abolish the College Entrance Examination".