Mencius didn't study hard when he was a child. Once, when Meng Mu was weaving, Mencius just came back from school. Meng Mu asked him how he was studying, and Mencius casually said, "As before, neither good nor bad." Hearing this, Meng Mu immediately raised his knife, cut the newly woven cloth, and seriously said, "Learning is like weaving. When the cloth is torn, it can never be picked up. If you don't study hard, you will never learn skills. " Mencius was deeply educated.

Mencius received a good education under his mother's strict education, which had a great influence on his future ideological and academic development.