Confucius initiated the wind of private schools and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. There are 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages. He led some disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Book, Rite, Yue, Yijing and Chunqiu in his later years.
After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled The Analects. This book is regarded as a Confucian classic.
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Confucius' achievements
Confucius put forward for the first time in the history of China that people's natural qualities are similar, and the differences in personality are mainly influenced by acquired education and social environment ("similar in sex, far from learning"). Therefore, everyone can be educated and everyone should be educated.
He advocated "no education for all", founded private schools and enrolled more students, which broke the monopoly of slave owners and nobles on school education and expanded the scope of education to civilians, conforming to the trend of social development at that time.
Confucius advocated "learning to be an official", and learning to be an official. The purpose of his education is to cultivate a political gentleman, who must have high moral quality. Therefore, Confucius emphasized that school education must put moral education in the first place ("disciples should be filial, considerate, sincere and trustworthy, be kind to others, and learn literature if they have spare capacity").
The main contents of Confucius' moral education are "courtesy" and "benevolence". Among them, "courtesy" is the moral standard, and "benevolence" is the highest moral standard. "Rite" is the form of "benevolence" and "benevolence" is the content of "ceremony". With the spirit of "benevolence", "ceremony" can be truly enriched.
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