Why is it that most of the education in China promotes "the way of Confucius and Mencius", but seldom mentions Laozi?

The Way of Confucius and Mencius is often mentioned in China's education, but seldom heard of mentioning the theory of Laozi. The way of Confucius and Mencius, referring to the Confucian thinking and theoretical concepts of Confucius and Mencius. After the Han Dynasty, the monarchs of the dynasties modified and added to the whole, and became the orthodoxy of the feudal system in China for thousands of years.

Confucius was a native of Lu State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, an educator at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, one of the most knowledgeable in society at that time, later honored as the teacher of the ages, the Confucius Sage, the Sage, and selected by UNESCO as the first of the world's top ten cultural celebrities. Mencius is the Warring States Zou people, the famous ideological educator, the Warring States period of Confucianism representative, inheritance and development of Confucius theory, later generations honored as a saint, and Confucius together for the Confucius and Mencius.

Confucius thought, advocating benevolence and love of mankind and respect for the Zhou ritual; Mencius thought, referring to Confucianism, in the political advocate of benevolent government. Developed to today, is to promote and practice benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, trust and other virtues, that is, generous life, love for the people, justice, civilization and harmony, honesty and trustworthiness, innovation, the rule of law and democracy.

When China's reform and opening up, Mr. Deng attaches great importance to Confucianism and the way of Confucius and Mencius, will be benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust and other theories of thought used in productivity, economic and business development. With the chase with the world parties, traditional Chinese culture and Western values collide, the traditional concept of the theory of statement out of the statement more from the Confucian and Mencius way, such as filial piety, righteousness, cultivate the family and so on.

Lao Zi's theory

Promoting Confucius and Mencius, is the role of traditional inertia statement, but also the appropriate in today's part of the masses. In the process of educating children, the Confucian and Mencius way can solve many educational problems, such as learning from the past and learning from the past, the delicate will fail, as well as facilitating the child to become a person of good behavior.

Lao Zi was a native of Chu in the Zhou Dynasty at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, an ancient thinker, philosopher and historian, and one of the world's 100 most famous historical figures. Laozi thought theory subjective is dialectical, is the rule of inaction, the teachings of the unspeakable, and the opposite of things. Thus, the metaphysics pursued by Laozi, the theory that the Taoist law of nature or less involved in the in-depth study.

Lao Zi's theory of thought, from the shallow analysis of some of the ease of excess, not in line with the teaching of most of the children. Can't parents teach their children that the Tao is the source of all things, for fear that it will be interpreted as the difficulty of entering the world at the moment of comfort? From a deeper level of analysis, it is difficult for the audience to understand the meaning.

Laozi's theory of thought is not as bad as that of Confucius and Mencius, but it is appropriate niche, to have a certain foundation to understand. China's education to promote the way of Confucius and Mencius is suitable for the public, suitable for interpretation and application from a young age, and seldom mentioned Laozi is because of its claims do not apply, compared to the birth of the great wisdom of the child is too little.