He said: "The knowledge of the ancients is called.

But, first, from the beginning, it must be raised in primary school. In order to illustrate the importance of cultivating education, he also compared the education in primary school to the stage of "making a blank mold". He said: "In the past, primary schools have been cultivated in the dark. In the long run, it has its own sage blank mold, only by adding it.

Light decoration. "And pointed out that if I lost my primary school when I was a child, or the blank mold was not laid well, it would be very difficult to make up for it when I grew up," he said.

Small losses are really difficult to fill. "In short, in his view, the education in the foster care stage is very important and must be grasped.

Second, it requires careful selection of teachers and friends.

Because children are imitative and weak in distinguishing right from wrong, the surrounding environment has a great influence on them.

With the law, habit and evil are evil. Therefore, like many educators in ancient times, Zhu emphasized the importance of early childhood education.

Pay attention to choosing teachers and friends carefully.

How to choose a wet nurse? Zhu's condition is that you must choose those who are generous, kind, gentle, courteous, cautious and taciturn as your teachers. This is a requirement for wet nurses, and in essence it is also the character that Zhu expects children to have.

The children are older. In addition to carefully choosing teachers, we should also pay attention to cultivating children to distinguish right from wrong and make friends.

Ability. As for how to decide how to make friends, he pointed out: "generally speaking, those who are honest and loyal and can attack us are also beneficial friends;" It is frivolous, arrogant and arrogant, leading people to evil and harming others. " "Good friends" should be close, and "bad friends" should be far away.

Third, emphasize learning "immediate things"

Zhu said: "Although the study of sages can't be superficial, those who learn must be close and easy."

He also said at the beginning: "According to some people, the way to learn is just around the corner, and it is not far-reaching at first." So his rules are very small.

The main task of learning should be to "learn what you should learn" and learn the daily things at hand. In order to make children have rules to follow in their study of "immediate things", Zhu personally compiled two textbooks for children, Primary School and Children's Instructions, which are the specific standards and requirements for children to learn "immediate things". It follows the order of children's learning, "starting with clothes, then words and steps, then sweeping the floor and cleaning." Anyone who washes his face must cover his clothes with a towel and wrap his sleeves to prevent them from getting wet. Anyone who works hard will go to the cage to get dressed. Be careful not to damage it. "It also stipulates that" everything should be serious and neat, and it is trivial to put it in a formal place, but there are also many reasonable ingredients. "

As the old saying goes, if you can't sweep a room, how can you sweep the world? How can you be great if you don't stick to the rules Pay attention to the study of "immediate things", that is,

Starting from small things and starting from things around us is a requirement, which is still the principle that children's moral education must follow.

Fourth, advocate positive education.

Zhu has always attached importance to and advocated positive education in his educational work. In his book What Children Need to Know, the provisions on children's daily life behavior mainly focus on positive and specific guidance. For example, he taught children that "whenever you put on clothes, you must first lift your collar, tie two ties and don't miss anything."

According to the principle of giving priority to positive education, Zhu also asked teachers to give guidance, demonstration and timely inspiration. He said: "The guide is also the credit of the teacher." Say it again; "Teachers and friends can be shown at the beginning and at the end. The teacher's timely inspiration to students is likened to "the change of time and rain", and he thinks that "for example, the cultivation of things has increased the manpower. But at that time, when the desire didn't happen, I owed some rain, and suddenly there was the rain, so how could the business be ruined? Zhu's early childhood education thought is a summary of his many years' educational practice experience, which reflects his intuitive understanding of the law of children's physical and mental development to a certain extent, contains many positive contents, and occupies an important position in the history of the development of ancient early childhood education theory in China.