社学是明清时期设置在广大农村地区以提高农家子弟的文化程度、进行封建伦理道德教育为主要任务的一种基层教育组织。甘肃社学的设立,虽然较全国其他地区为迟,但也在一定程度上提高了甘肃地方教育的水平,推动了各族人民文化教育的普及化和平民化进程,推动了甘肃教育的发展。 Sociology is a grass-roots education organization set up in the vast rural areas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties to raise the education level of peasant families and to carry out the feudal ethics and moral education. Although the establishment of social science in Gansu is later than that in other parts of the country, it also improves the level of local education in Gansu to a certain extent, promotes the popularization and civilization of people’s cultural education among all ethnic groups, and promotes the development of Gansu education.