Han Yu believes that education is effective for both the upper class and the middle class. For top-grade people, "the more you learn, the more you know"; For those who have China products, "you can guide them up and down"; As for inferior people, they are "afraid of power and less guilty", that is, they are ruled by criminal law, which makes them afraid and less guilty. He confirmed that the difference between the top grade and the bottom grade is fixed, and the so-called "Confucius said that the product does not move." Han Yu believes that the purpose of education is to make the educated understand the king's teachings.

For example, Han Yu said in The Original Road: "What is the so-called teacher of the former king? Love is benevolence, doing the right thing is righteousness, doing the right thing is Tao, doing the right thing is self-sufficiency, and doing nothing outside is virtue. His essays, poems, books, the Book of Changes and the Spring and Autumn Period; Its laws, rituals, music, punishment and politics are easy to understand and easy to teach. " In moral education, the content of education includes benevolence, righteousness and morality; Intellectual education includes poetry, books, the Book of Changes and the Spring and Autumn Period.

In political education, it includes etiquette, music, punishment and politics. In a word, Han Yu strongly advocates that the educated should inherit and carry forward the Confucian "orthodoxy". There are many Confucian things, some deviant things, many idealistic things and many materialistic things in Han Yu's thoughts. But on the whole, the ideas suitable for social development at that time dominated. This mentality determines the complexity and diversity of his educational thought.