There was a school named DAIGAKURYO that studied for aristocrat's children to go into government service at the Heian era.
Even if he or she wanted to study, a person who had low status and a poor person were not able to enter the school.
Then, Kukai established the school that the person who wanted to learn was able to study regardless of the position.
This was the oldest school under private management in Japan.
School expenses of this school were free as the student was able to concentrate on study. This school gave meal to a poor person.
The name of this school was SYUGEISYUTCHIIN.
SYUGEI is to mean all studies like the Confucianism, the Buddhism, the taoism, the law, engineering, the medicine, astronomy, and music, etc.This school was aiming at the education of the large range like a present university.
The school did not continue long by the economic context.
It was a new school that not was before for people at that time.