Learn the education of Confucius 2500 years ago.

 Learn the education of Confucius 2500 years ago.


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It is said that Confucius formally organized the school for only three years immediately before his death.


After spending his middle age preaching his political philosophy to his princes, he returned to his home country of Noh with an old body of 69 years old and taught students with self-consciousness as a 'teacher' for about three years before dying at the age of 73. it was


Confucius, who has wandered for nearly 14 years and has not found a way to realize his political ideals, complains about this in the Qin dynasty.


Confucius speaks in the kingdom of Qin.


“I have to go back. I have to go back. The young people in our country have high ambitions, but they don’t have the skills.


You have the dazzling silk fabric, but you can't make clothes properly."


[5:21]



"I have taught anyone who can make 'simple greetings' for himself.


[7:7]


It is a determination that contains a passion for education to teach young people of the country who have excellent materials but are not able to refine them properly.


Confucius opened the school door wide.


'Whoever wants to learn, come.'


This was the greatest characteristic of the Confucius School.


It means that Confucius was the person who practiced democratic equality education 2,500 years ago.



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It is impossible for anyone to learn, regardless of class or race, except for the 'opening' of Confucius, who realized the importance of intellect to humans. The spirit of Confucius' fierce quest to realize the truth is well expressed in the following words.


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"If you realize the truth in the morning, you may die in the evening."


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He would have been able to build an open school because of his own search for the truth, his thirst for the intellect that acquired it, and fierce struggle in the process of obtaining it.


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This wide open school door is also a door that is quickly closed to those who do not study properly.


The second characteristic of the Confucius school is rigor.


The door is open to those who learn, but strictness that does not leave those who do not want to learn properly.


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First of all, those who want to learn must be full of enthusiasm.


He pulls the chair tight and sits upright and starts learning with his eyes wide open in the attitude that he will not miss anything the teacher teaches. He said that he would never teach again to a disciple who did not feel sorry for what he had learned.


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Taking one step further, it required not only passion for learning but also wisdom. To compare it to a desk, when the teacher 'raises one corner and shows it', the student 'if they do not notice the other three corners' and 'twice again' He had the strict principle of 'not to repeat'.


In this way, Confucius School was a strict school that required all of its students passion, affection, and wisdom for learning.



The third characteristic of Confucius' school is that the principle of 'if you don't ask a question, you don't answer' was implemented.


Most of [The Analects] consists of answers obtained by the disciples asking questions to the teacher. In short, only those who can ask questions are disciples, and those who can give answers to questions are teachers.


The problem is that 'question-like questions' are never easily made.




As an open school.


rigorous training process.


A teaching method in which an answer is given only by asking a question.


The school of Confucius had these characteristics.



In addition, the educational philosophy of this school is as follows.


Freedom from witchcraft or rationality, strong practicality, strong morality.


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Take a look at the Confucius Institute 2500 years ago and learn another way of education. 

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