1, Confucius' educational thought
Moral cultivation Moral cultivation is the most basic educational content of Confucius, and the most important content is "benevolence". Literary knowledge, such as Poems, Books, Rites, Music, The Book of Changes, Six Arts and Spring and Autumn Annals, contains Confucius' social and political theory, and is a textbook for Confucius to educate students in politics and history.
Confucius not only taught textbooks, but also taught some skills. Among the "six arts" of ceremony, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics, "shooting" and "imperial" belong to this category. "Shooting" means archery, and "guarding" means driving, which was one of the requirements of the upper class for the gentry at that time.
2. Mozi's educational thought.
Mozi's social and political ideal is to "promote the benefits of the world and eliminate the harm of the world" and build a "fraternity" society of equality and mutual assistance. Mozi's conclusion of fate is more thorough than Confucius's.
"Love" natural science, production skills, military knowledge and other skills training. Mohism has a high attainments in natural science education, involving mathematics, optics, acoustics, mechanics and many other aspects. Mozi's educational content theory is very distinctive, and its value is mainly reflected in scientific and technological education and the cultivation of thinking ability, which breaks through the category of Confucian six arts education and has progressive significance.
3. Mencius' educational thought.
Mencius advocated "benevolent politics" politically, and its center was "people-oriented" thought; Philosophically, he put forward the theory that human nature is good, and Mencius thought that the social function of education is to win the hearts of the people, and good politics is not as good as good education.
Mencius advocated that the goal of education is to cultivate "gentlemen", "saints" and …… courageous people. "Human relations" means "father and son are related, monarch and minister are righteous, husband and wife are different, young and old are orderly, and friends have faith?" . Later people called it "five ethics", which is a moral concept of maintaining social order and ranking.