He attached importance to the acquired education, saying, "The learning of the ancients, because of the prophet, must be cultivated in primary school." In order to illustrate the importance of cultivating education, he also vividly compared primary education to the stage of "making a blank model". He said: "In ancient times, primary schools were secretly cultivated. In the long run, they had their own blank mold of sages, but there was a faint decoration on it."
He also pointed out that if you lost your primary school when you were young, or didn't make a blank mold, it would be difficult to fill it when you were old. He said: "Now you have lost it since you were a child, and it is really difficult to fill it." In short, in his view, the education in the foster care stage is very important, and we must pay close attention to it.
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There are 25 kinds of Zhu's existing works with more than 600 volumes, with a total word count of about 20 million words. There are Zhouyi's Original Meaning, Enlightenment, Textual Research on Eight Diagrams, Biography of Poetry, Doctrine of the Mean in Universities, Notes on Analects of Confucius, Notes on Mencius, Illustration of Taiji, Interpretation of Tong Shu, Interpretation of Mingxi, Annotation of Chuci and Differences in Korean.
Introduction to the Doctrine of the Mean, Mistakes in Filial Piety, Primary School Book, Outline of a General Mirror, Records of Words and Actions of Famous Officials in Song Dynasty, Family Rites, Records of Recent Thoughts, Notes of Cheng Family in Henan Province, Records of Luo Yi's Origin, etc. An anthology with 100 volume, a sequel to1volume, an anthology with 10 volume, and a collection of Zhuzi schools with 140 volume are compiled by admirers.