The historical significances of the establishment of modern school can be investigated from two angles.
1) The Aim of the modern education is the movement for national salvation.
2) The change of educational system from old educational system.
The ...
The historical significances of the establishment of modern school can be investigated from two angles.
1) The Aim of the modern education is the movement for national salvation.
2) The change of educational system from old educational system.
The domestic situation was in great confusion in the early period of the Introduction of modern education in Korea: caused by the reasons like the intervention by Ching in Korean national affairs, the ambition Japanese clove toward the Asian Continent, and Russian seeking for nonfreezing port in the South, especially in korea. The Incumbent Korean Government was placed in great disruption within the Government there were the various factors like pro-Japanese, Pro-chinese, and pro-czarist Russia to maintain statesquo. Under such circumstances the popular uprising took place in every part of the country.
The corruption add wrong administration in the local and centrol were prevalent. The national situation was being worsened by the confusions misfortune. 10 remedy the nation reconatruct the nation. There happened the epoch-making event, so called the Kabo Renewal. The modernization of the nation had been applied in the all, socio-palitical aspects including educational system. In that period. King realized the blest war to reconstruct nation through the modernization of educational system. To quicken the educational promotion, he put emphasis on the education of the gifted.
The educational leadership was provided by the government, the missionaries and newly cultivated national loaders, The offical govermment-run educational institution wan founded by the Government, private schools by the national interlectural leaders and the mission schools by the missionaries, The awakening of the national leaders made fruits through the establishment of the Bae-Jae and Ye-Wha school in 1886.
However the modern-school education couldn't be so successful because of the shortage of the national wealth and the lack of understanding by the general populace.
By the time of Ueol-Sa protectrate Treaty with Japan.
The educational system become Japanese and the education was being used for the colonialization of the country by Japan.
Under such transition in educational pavement from patriotic aspect to the colonialized educational system. People hated to Bee the governmental school, and people turned toward the private school to achieve the educational expectation through the private school. That was a main reason why the private schools became so popular within the country. Many recognizable national loaders were anxious to see the private school being established.
The new educational system, colonial-type education aimed to suppress anti- Japanese feeling, (by revising the textbook along the colonial purpose) Because of such opprssion the private school pursued their way to promote independent feeling. However, even though those purpose could not be fulley realized through the private education.
The educational efforts on a means of national independence by the private institutions had to be high evaluated. The old chinese-confusion oriented educational system had been changed to achieve the modernization through liberation by im-practical metaphysical theory of education by the adaption of the western style of educational system in modern korea especially in the Introduction by the western missionaries.