Virtue and skill are the same.
Yan Zhitui proposed that family education for disciples should be "both moral and artistic", including both feudal moral education and "applying what they have learned".
Confucian thought
Yan Zhitui attaches great importance to the education of children's moral ideals and sentiments. He believes that although children are young, they should also use the Five Confucian Classics to regulate their words and deeds. From an early age, we should know how to treat the books of sages with respect, educate our children to respect sages, cherish the "old paper" with the meaning of classics and the name of sages, borrow other people's books as treasures and make up for the bad ones.
Childhood education
It is necessary to educate children on loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness and propriety from an early age, requiring that "teachers should protect filial piety, benevolence, propriety and propriety and guide the ambition of Xi" as soon as children are born. The others are children. Honor your parents at home, and be loyal to your parents when you grow up and become an official abroad.
Learn skills through training
The content of "learning art" refers to not only learning hundreds of books such as classics and history, but also familiarizing yourself with all kinds of miscellaneous arts necessary for literati's functions, communication and life, that is, teachers' fu, articles, calligraphy, arithmetic, painting, divination, medicine, harps, throwing pots, games and other skills.
Knowledge is the foundation of moral education.
Yan Zhitui believes that knowledge is the foundation of moral education and serves it. It is rare that he can educate children to learn from the "pioneers" among workers.