This passage is a concentrated expression of Confucius' educational policy and school-running purpose. After being an official, you still have energy and time, and you can learn the knowledge of governing the country and keeping the country safe, such as rites and music; After studying, he still has the energy and time to be an official and go into politics. At the same time, this chapter once again talked about the relationship between "learning" and "official".
The relationship between "learning" and "official", that is, the relationship between learning and practice, is actually completely consistent with the viewpoint of "practice-understanding (learning)-re-practice-re-understanding (learning)" in Marxist dialectics.
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The common people in ancient China should be scholars, peasants, workers and businessmen. These four classes reflected the social structure at that time, and the way of division was also the means of making a living for each class. Literati are the highest class among the common people. In short, they make a living by reading.
The main means of their promotion to the upper level is the imperial examination. Scholars get the opportunity to get ahead through the imperial examination, and once they seize this opportunity, they can become officials. Therefore, there is a saying that "learning to be excellent is to be an official".
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