General education is a concept corresponding to adult education, and the difference between them mainly lies in the difference of educational objects and learning forms. The object of general education is mainly teenagers in the growing stage, and it adopts full-time teaching form; As the name implies, the object of adult education is adults, and part-time teaching is generally implemented.
The task of general education is usually undertaken by schools that implement general education (called general education schools). General education schools are divided into general basic education schools, vocational education schools and general higher (secondary specialized) schools. Full-time teaching is implemented for undergraduate and below, and full-time or part-time teaching is implemented for graduate students.
General basic education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education, including special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and work-study education for extraordinary students; Vocational education includes vocational high school education, technical education and higher vocational education (general higher vocational education is sometimes included in general higher education).
General higher (secondary specialized) education refers to the academic education that mainly recruits high school (junior high school) graduates to learn full-time professional knowledge, which is relative to the adult higher education forms such as correspondence, evening university and staff university that recruit on-the-job employees to work and study.