First of all, Confucius is a learned man. He believes that being an official requires learning to be an official. Confucius' initial ambition was official career, and his political proposition was: self-denial and courtesy. So he went to Lao Tzu twice to ask? A gift? . "Rites of Zhou" is a good way to govern the country and keep the country safe in slave society, so Confucius wanted to take "Rites of Zhou" as his general plan of governing the country and recommend it to various governors, and at the same time took this opportunity to enter the official career and realize his political ambitions. However, as time passed, Zhou Li was not suitable for the national and social conditions at that time, nor was it recognized by various rulers. He also ran into a wall everywhere, poor and unhappy. I have no choice but to express my feelings: people who don't know and don't care are not gentlemen! And began his own educational career.
Confucius' learning, one is to summarize and record the knowledge of predecessors, and the other is his students, to summarize and record some classic answers and thoughts in his teaching, and its basic way is preaching. Confucius' greatest influence lies not in himself and his own knowledge, but in the in-depth introduction and development of his knowledge by his descendants, his disciples and believers, especially the development since Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which all centered on serving the feudal monarchy. And the Rites of Zhou, which Confucius admired, was mainly right? Three cardinal guides and five permanent members? Publicity and consolidation. Value? Three cardinal guides and five permanent members? Mainly achievements and constraints. Under the doctrine of three cardinal guides and five permanent members, the top management overlooks discipline and management; From bottom to top is to look up, listen and obey. In this way, a bureaucratic atmosphere of bossing around and flattering the upper class has been formed, and the ghost is lingering. Dignity at all levels comes from the lower classes. The emperor must be the most dignified, and ordinary people and lower-class women are the least dignified.
The inheritance of nearly two thousand years finally hindered the development and progress of society and made modern China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. Confucius was also mercilessly attacked by modern progressives. From this point of view, Confucius was troubled by those who came later. He didn't know that no one valued him or hired him when he was alive. More than three hundred years after his death, so many people used him for more than two thousand years.
Therefore, positioning Confucius as an educator should be respected.
If you define him as a politician, it will embarrass him. Because politics was useless before death, it hit a wall everywhere, was used after death, and was blamed and scolded. It's really unfair!
Others define him as a thinker and philosopher, which is also far-fetched. There have been many disappointments and controversies about the positioning of his two families since ancient times. Now, with his knowledge as the background, some people attack that China had no philosophy in ancient times.
Therefore, Confucius is well-deserved as a great educator in ancient times. It would be better to make his birthday Teacher's Day!