The main contents of Confucius' moral education are "courtesy" and "benevolence". Among them, "courtesy" is the moral standard, and "benevolence" is the highest moral standard. "Rite" is the form of "benevolence" and "benevolence" is the content of "ceremony". With the spirit of "benevolence", "ceremony" can be truly enriched.
Extended data:
According to Zhu Yizun's research on Confucius' disciples in Qing Dynasty, his disciples came from Shandong, Qi, Wei, Jin, Cai, Qin, Song, Xue, Wu and Chu, and only a few people such as Meng and Sima Niu belonged to the real nobility. Although Zi Gong was born in a family of private businessmen, he still belongs to the category of "I".
Therefore, since Confucius, education has moved from "learning in the official" to the people, the object of education has been pushed from the nobility to the common people, and the concept of equality has expanded from educational practice to the whole society, expanding the social foundation of education, opening up the source of talents and increasing the number of literate people in society, thus making cultural knowledge relatively popular.
Confucius trained these "poor and cheap" people into celebrities and gentlemen, which met the needs of the rise of the emerging landlord class and scholar class at that time and laid the foundation for a hundred schools of thought to contend during the Warring States period. It prepared conditions for the emerging landlord class to step onto the historical stage. It has a profound influence on the history of education and moral education in China.
Baidu encyclopedia-Confucius