The Rising of Official Colleges in the Middle and Late Southern Song Dynasty
Chinese ancient culture reached its apogee in the Song Dynasty,which had a close relation with the sustainable development of the state and county school.However,to the Middle Southern Song Dynasty,the traditional school had numerous defects,which made higher education reform imperative.Then,the official college emerged.The official college acknowledged by the central government appeared as a reformer from the beginning,and showed very high-profile,whose aim was to go beyond the traditional school.The high-profile performance of the official college promoted the building of new values,the cultivation of new talents and the popularization of higher education.