浅析科举制度的意识形态控制功能

On the Ideology Controlling Function of the Old Examination System in China

科举制度不仅是一种官员选拔制度,而且也是一项重要的意识形态控制制度。它有机地将士人的理想和统治者的需要结合起来,为统治者控制士人思想提供了有效途径。考试科目和内容的官方设定是统治者利用科举制度控制士人思想的主要手段。科举制度还是古代学校灌输官方意识形态的制度保证,它甚至对普通民众也间接发挥了意识形态控制作用。

The Old Examination System in China was not only a system for selecting officers, but an important system for controlling ideology .It was the effective ways to control thoughts of scholars. To establish subjects and content was the primary means for controlling of the system. In addition, the system could insure teachers to indoctrinate official ideology to students in every school. It even could help control the ideology of common people.