The Chinese civil service exam was created to establish a meritocracy or a rule based on integrity and excellence on certain criteria. However, it is based on a hierarchical system that only seems to focus on the children especially a boy child of an upper class. A political system that emerged in the seventh century for the ruler to appoint a qualified leader. The civil service system had significant influences on socio-economic rights on aspects of life. The preparation for the exam begins even before birth.
When a boy was born into a family, the family would celebrate by shooting arrows in the four …show more content…
297) Furthermore, he needs to have an understanding of how to write poems and essays. A child needs to start his education when he surpassed the age of Three. The concept of Nature and Nurture plays a huge role in upbringing a child. According to the reading, “ Even at this early stage…..a great effect upon his development,” ( Pg. 297) a mother’s role in child’s life have a huge impact while he is growing up as well as his surroundings such as where and who he is growing up …show more content…
Indeed, even a young boy from the poorest family could join the highly educated class by prevailing in the exam. This affirmation of accomplishment in the examinations subordinate just on one's capacity as opposed to one's social position flowed the key thoughts of Confucianism, concerning appropriate conduct, ceremonies, and connections in the Chinese Society. The expectation of social structure through accomplishment in this framework was the inspiration for being educated, regardless of whether one was the child from a lower class or higher elite class. Be that as it may, notwithstanding for the poor man’s child who did not do alright to take the exams even at the most reduced level, by being educated had the real result of increase in literacy rate, and this proficiency was procured through dominance of a similar essential messages that other people who went ahead to pass the exam at the largest amount additionally considered. This curricular consistency had an amazingly capable impact on the society, and the real impulse for this consistency was the meritocracy advanced by the Civil service