What are the similarities between China's ancient and western educational thoughts?

Thousands of years ago, people in China began to eat rice, which is an unchanging tradition in China. But in Europe, people have completely different eating habits-people eat bread and drink beer. Although there is rice in Europe, people seldom eat it. This is normal, because Chinese and western cultures have developed in two completely different environments, and there is almost no communication with each other, so there will naturally be great differences. However, the same human beings, living on the same planet, must have something in common. For example, noodles, China had the first bowl of noodles four thousand years ago; In the west, Italy was not far behind and invented spaghetti. But what is incredible is that these two civilizations have never interacted with each other, but they have invented something.