The Basic Views of Pre-Qin Confucianism on Teachers

The basic views of pre-Qin Confucianism on teachers are as follows:

Among the pre-Qin Confucianists, Xunzi advocated respecting teachers and valuing Taoism the most. Xunzi put teachers in the same position as heaven and earth and ancestors, and he regarded teachers as the foundation of governing the country.

Xunzi believes that teachers' participation in governing the country is achieved through an intermediary, that is, his teaching, whether "imitating the law" or not, will produce completely different results for people. This is because teachers are the embodiment of propriety and righteousness, and they have mastered the truth of benevolence and righteousness and the rules of the previous dynasty in an outline. Therefore, imitation is a shortcut to transform courtesy into everyone's quality. Without the teacher's instruction, people will add it.

Attach importance to the indulgence of nature: through the teacher's teaching, we can accumulate goodness and change ourselves. It is in this sense that teachers and teacher education have the function of governing the country.

The development of thought began with Confucius in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and there were Mencius and Xunzi in the Warring States Period. At the end of the Warring States period, there was another masterpiece-The Book of Rites.

Confucius: lead by example, temper leniency with severity, and teach students in accordance with their aptitude.

Confucius believes that as a teacher, you should be an example to students. He said, "His body is upright and he has no orders. His body is not upright, although he disobeys orders. " You have to teach students to establish some morality, you don't have it yourself, you can't; You want to teach students knowledge, but you can't and it won't work. Therefore, as a teacher, we must set an example.

Once, Confucius said to his disciples, "Be silent if you want." Zi Gong asked Confucius, "Then how should our disciples publicize and spread your thoughts?" Confucius said, "What did Heaven say? When you are at four o'clock, everything is born. What is the sky? " God didn't say anything, but all the year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter still run, and everything in the world still grows.

What Confucius wants to express is some education and some needless things, that is, to set an example and educate with his own words and deeds.