Schools directly under the shogunate: such as Changping Academy, compulsory for samurai.
Xue Fan: It is also aimed at samurai, and its scale refers to shogunate school. It mainly teaches Confucianism, Chinese poetry, Chinese language, military science and economics. By the end of the curtain, there were about 200 schools. Famous ones include the New Huijin Fanri Museum, the Misawa Fanrang Museum, the Kumamoto Fan Shi Museum and the Mito Fanhong Hall.
Rural school: a school set up by shogunate and vassal in rural areas, focusing on educating ordinary children.
Private school: 1500 or so, founded by famous scholars, and most students come here.
Temple House: It provides modern primary education. Most children are six to ten years old, mainly for reading, writing and abacus training.
The education level of people in Edo period was surprisingly high in medieval countries. At that time, most men were literate, and the literacy rate of women was also very high. First of all, because private schools and temples have no specific fees, the rich can pay silver as tuition. Even if ordinary farmers are born in poverty, they can pay a small amount of agricultural products as tuition fees, which makes most people have the opportunity to receive education. Second, with the increase of commercialization, people and logistics, the improvement of life skills forces people.