A Review of Ancient and Modern University Educational Philosophy

Confucius pointed out in the opening chapter of the university, "The way of the university is to be bright and virtuous, to be kind to the people, and to stop at the highest good." It means that the purpose of the university is to promote bright and upright character, to make people abandon the old and seek the new, and to enable them to reach the most perfect state. In practice, he created the "Six Classics" represented by "Poetry", "Book", "Rites", "Music", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn", which laid the foundation for the nature of humanistic education in ancient China. He taught people to be human beings as the main purpose of education, focusing on virtue and wisdom, paying particular attention to independent thinking and independent learning, focusing on the moral education and moral training of people, emphasizing temperament and integrity, and calling for the conscious unification of the social responsibility of the individual with the self-improvement of personal morality. Therefore, the traditional goal of education in China is to cultivate a human being, a person who cultivates himself, has a thick moral character, and has a fine work ethic. With

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Modern point of view, we believe that university education to cultivate people should have a healthy thinking and emotion, bright moral feelings, open-minded, enthusiastic for people, lighten the self, the world vision and team spirit.