Education target: the first person to open a private school to common
people Course content
morality, proper speech, government, the refined arts Pedagogical methods:
He poses questions, or uses apt analogies, and waits for his students to arrive at the right answers. Education goal:
to create superior men
To prefer it is better than only to know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer i知t. 之者不如好之者,
Zi Gong asked: “Why was Kong Wen Zi called ‘Wen’ ?” Confucius replied: “He was quick and devoted to learning, and not ashamed to asked those below him. That is why he is called
好之者不如乐之者。
知之为知之, 不知为
不知,是知也。
What you know, you know, what you don‘t know, you don’t know. This is knowledge.
In teaching people, there is no discrimination (of class, type, etc.)