Inherit and carry forward the Confucian theory of mind and nature. From the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the present, it has a certain influence and has a far-reaching influence on Southeast Asian countries except China, especially Japanese. Wang Yangming's educational thoughts are mainly embodied in: criticizing Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, integrating knowledge with practice, leading to conscience and seeking truth.

Wang Yangming

Wang Shouren (1472,10,31-1529, 1-9), Han nationality, is from Yuyao, Zhejiang. Famous thinker, philosopher, calligrapher, strategist and educator in Ming Dynasty.

Before Wang Yangming, Wen can point to the country, and Wu can level the world with fewer people. Later generations pay more attention to Yangming's mind, and more people like to study and study Yangming's mind at present. Yangming's theory of mind is the easiest to reach the realm of saints.

People's good and evil are determined by their hearts.

We often hear a saying: "Once you become a Buddha, you become a demon." This is determined by our hearts. The good and evil in people's hearts are all decided by themselves. Wang Yangming believes that our hearts should be free of good and evil, selfish and materialistic. In this way, people's ideological realm can be achieved. As a person, I have been studying from birth to death. Life skills, cultural knowledge, professional skills, dealing with people and so on. All knowledge and cultivation come down to one point, that is, to eliminate evil for good, to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature. It is to take conscience as the standard and act according to one's own conscience and heart.

It is completely different from Zhu's theory of "knowing knowledge by things"

As long as we can achieve a heart without selfish desires, the truth in our hearts is actually the truth of everything in the world. Heaven depends not on empty talk, but on knowledge. Relying on practice and introspection, that is, "integration of knowledge and action". There is justice and selflessness in the heart, just like there are rules and regulations in the world. Rules can measure the sum of squares and circles of everything in the world. No matter how many squares and circles there are, no matter how big or small they are, we can reveal their laws by knowing things, otherwise these laws are incorrect. Justice lies in people's hearts.

Have known each other successively.

Yangming school is not pure idealism. "Although the heart is dominated by a body, it actually controls the principles of the world; Although reason is scattered in everything, it is nothing more than one person's heart. The reason why this knowing and doing is two is to seek truth from the outside. Seeking the truth from my heart, how can my son doubt the teaching of the unity of knowledge and action of this holy gate? " Handbook (middle) "How to separate knowledge from action?" "If you know the reason, you will know it." Answer Gu Dongqiao's book. "Today's learning is only because of the dichotomy of knowing and doing, so there is a bad idea, but it has not been done, so it will not be banned." Biographical Literature (Ⅱ)

Teach and inherit

Seven schools of Wang Xue: Jiang Zhengyi Youwangmen School, Zhezhong Wangmen School, Nanzhong Wangmen School, Chuzhong Wangmen School, Minyue Wangmen School, Beiwangmen School and Taizhou School.

Wang Xue left wing: Wang Gen of Taizhou school, heretical Li Zhi.

Yangming's Theory of Mind: Huang Zongxi, Fang Yizhi, Yan Yuan, Gu, Wang Fuzhi.