These two sentences come from different sources. The first sentence comes from Tan Sitong's Supplement to the Articles of Association of Liuyang Arithmetic Museum, and the second sentence comes from Lu Chunqiu's Persuasion.
According to China's Confucianism, "heaven and earth respect teachers" and "a teacher is still a teacher, and a father is also a teacher", which means to treat teachers like his own father and show respect for them.
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Teachers have dignity and education is confident; Only when teachers become fashionable can the country have a future. Only when students "learn from their teachers" and "believe in their teaching", teachers "learn to be teachers" and society "respects teachers more than learning" can education release the great power to achieve personal dreams and support the country's prosperity.
The greatest support for education and the best gift for teachers is to respect teachers and attach importance to teaching. For example, deepening the reform of the education system and creating a civilized fashion that attaches importance to learning and education can make education like a spring breeze; Only by increasing investment in education and improving the treatment of teachers can hard-working gardeners feel at ease and have enthusiasm for teaching.