In the article Understanding of Learning, Han Yu put forward his views on learning methods. His famous saying, "Indulge in diligence, waste it on fun, succeed in thinking, and ruin it on obedience" tells people that if you want to be diligent and successful, you must work hard on diligence and thinking, which is an important learning principle proved by practice. As for how to study, he also has rich experience. First of all, he asked to follow the learning method of "those who remember things must mention the essentials, those who make up words must hook the mystery, and those who are greedy don't donate more", that is to say, in learning, we should outline and learn from each other's strengths. Secondly, he asked for an attitude of "depressed and full of elegance", just like tasting food and wine, reading classic works and exploring the true meaning of classics. Not only that, but he also requires the diligence spirit of "burning incense to continue life, thinking about change if you are poor", which means that you should study day and night, tirelessly and tirelessly. In terms of teaching methods, he also attached importance to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, just like the pre-Qin Confucianism. Taking the use of wood by craftsmen as an example, he explained that educators should adopt different methods according to the different situations of students.

Han Yu pointed out that teachers have three tasks: preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts. Of the three, Tao is the soul of the teacher, karma is the tool to carry Tao, and the teacher is the disseminator of Tao and the solver of karma. This view of learning from the way, career and confusion is very insightful. Han Yu believes that teachers and students should take teachers as the center and take Tao and career as the criterion. Anyone who has difficulties in teaching should learn from the teacher, and whoever understands the teaching first can become a teacher. This thought of taking teaching as a teacher greatly reduced the dignity and authority of feudal teaching as a teacher, emphasized the ability to be a teacher, and broke the conservative barrier of taking teaching as a teacher and family law since the Han Dynasty. This is a new development of teachers' teaching thoughts, which goes far beyond the significance that teaching and learning should learn from each other.