Zhu was a famous Neo-Confucianism scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. He inherited and developed the theory of Cheng-cheng and became a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the same time, he is the most influential educator in China after Confucius, and he has been giving lectures all his life. In his long-term educational practice, he has formed a set of unique educational theories, many of which are still very important to our educational cause today.

The role and purpose of Y education Zhu attaches importance to the important role of education in changing human nature. He divides human nature into "the nature of destiny" and "the nature of temperament", and thinks that the function of education lies in "changing temperament" and giving full play to "goodness" and "showing morality" in "temperament", thus realizing the fundamental task of "preserving righteousness and destroying human desires".

In view of the thought of the role of education, Zhu proposed the education of "human relations in Ming Dynasty". He said: "Today, sages teach people to learn, not to make people compose music and create words, but to be a famous scholar, with knowledge, sincerity, integrity, self-cultivation, and even to rule the world and the country, which is the proper learning.

It is believed that the first thing to teach people to learn is to let students understand justice and be a man, not just to learn miscellaneous knowledge and do some gorgeous articles to pursue fame and gain. In the annotation of Mencius, he further clarified that "father and son are similar, monarch and minister are righteous, husband and wife are different, young and old are orderly, friends are trustworthy, and this person is also big." Library, preface, learning and proofreading are all based on this.

Zhu believes that only by taking "understanding five virtues" as the purpose of school education can we make "all countries in the world govern daily life more and chaos daily life less"