Abstract: Under the guidance of modernization construction requirements and national policies, rural education has undergone a tortuous development process from "literature to the countryside" to "text moves up". From the perspective of social change, the research on rural education development, combs the development process, dilemma, causes and outlets of rural education was reviewed. Combined with the actual development of rural education in China, some thoughts on the rural education dilemma in the development of social transformation were put forward.

Key words: rural, rural education, social change