"University" is an essay on the Confucian thought of self-cultivation and governing the country. Originally the 42nd article of The Book of Rites of Little Dai, it is said that it was written by. In fact, it is a Confucian work in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is an important work for China to discuss educational theory in ancient times. After being highly praised by Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "University Chapters and Sentences", which was finally called "Four Books" together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.

The "Three Outlines" and "Eight Items" put forward in "University" emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and the world and personal moral cultivation.

The value impact of universities is as follows:

(1) The university proposed the major of political philosophy. Universities theorized and popularized Confucianism in a short space, which was convenient for scholars to learn and master, and Confucianism provided a guarantee for the stability of feudal dynasties.

(2) University can be regarded as the first book of scientific enlightenment. It puts forward that "sincerity and integrity" is an essential scientific research mentality, "learning from things" is the only way to know, "stopping at perfection" is the pursuit of perfection, and "improving day by day" is a strong sense of innovation.

(3) Although universities are full of philosophical thoughts of subjective idealism, there are important expositions of philosophical thoughts of simple materialism. For example, it puts forward that "things have a beginning and an end, and things have an end", which recognizes the beginning and end of things; The proposed "radical cure" recognizes the law of governing the country.