教育盛衰与王朝周期律

教育发展周期比王朝盛衰周期长。在同一教育发展周期内，王朝的衰落带来教育发展的小幅波动，新王朝创立之后能在较短的时间内修复原有的教育结构。而当教育结构自身开始坍塌的时候，王朝的衰落则明显加快这一坍塌的过程。教育结构的重建一般需要几个世纪，这一时期内王朝频繁更替，教育与王朝政治处于两衰的恶性循环中。教育与王朝政治的依存关系形成于春秋战国，巩固于西汉。僵硬的教育结构与人的创造力构成持续的冲突，最终导致教育结构的坍塌。

The Rise and Fall of Education, the Cycle of Dynasties

The cycle of the educational development lasted longer than the cyde of the rise and fall of dynasties. In the same cyde of educational development, the decline of dynasties resulted in slight falls of educational development, but the educational structure could be reconstucted shortly after the development of the new dynasties. When the collapse of educational structure began, the decline of dynasties obviously sped up the process of the collapse. The reconstruction of educational struture usually took several centuries in which dynasties took their turns frequently, thus making education and the imperial politics fall into a vicious circle. Education became interdependent with imperial polities in The Spring and Autumn Period and the relation got strengthened in the Western. The inflexible educational structure conflicted continuously with the human creativity,resulting in the collapse of educational structure.