近代新疆教育起步较晚。如同经济社会发展较内地落后一样,近代新疆教育同样落后,且受到列强染指,吞食疆土,窃取文物,宗教渗透而危机四伏的新疆社会经济的严重制约,举步维艰。当时的新疆旧教育为封建专制统治、官本位等级制度和宗教神权势力服务,根深蒂固,严重阻碍和束缚了社会发展。一、新疆高等教育的雏形 Modern Xinjiang education started later. As economic and social development lags behind that of the mainland, the education in modern Xinjiang lags behind as well, and it is struggling to get gravely constrained by the severe social and economic constraints in Xinjiang, which are dominated by the powers and swallowed up by territories and steal cultural relics and religions. At that time, the old education in Xinjiang was deeply rooted in the dictatorship of the feudal monarchy, the rank system of officials and the religious powers, which seriously hindered and restrained social development. First, the prototype of Xinjiang’s higher education