Exposing and criticizing the traditional children's education is "whipping the rope, trying to add to the crime, there is no answer", advocating that children should be educated naturally and treated as adults or even prisoners, and the result can only be contrary to the wishes of teachers.

2. On the purpose and content of children's education.

"Today's teaching boys should be devoted to filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, honesty and shame, and their self-cultivation should be directly induced to sing poems to express their aspirations; Guiding ceremony eliminates its dignity; Satire reading opens his mind. "

It can be seen that the purpose of his "Teaching of Human Relations" is still centered on Confucian moral education, but it also includes cultivating children's will quality, cultivating children's moral behavior, developing children's knowledge and intelligence, and hoping that children's body and mind will be more comprehensively developed.

Inherit Lu Jiuyuan's thought that "mind is reason" and oppose Cheng Yi and Zhu's method of seeking "reason" with things. Because things are endless and being imprisoned is quite tiring, he advocates "conscience" and seeks "reason" from his own heart. "Reason" lies in people's minds and reason.

In the relationship between knowledge and action, it is emphasized that knowledge is more important than action, and there are actions in knowledge and knowledge in action. The so-called "integration of knowledge and practice" is inseparable from the two. Knowledge must be manifested in behavior, if not, it can't be regarded as real knowledge.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Shouren