Confucius devoted himself to cultivating scholars and gentlemen, that is, to cultivate talents for realizing benevolent and moral governance. He attaches great importance to people's inner quality and external performance, and once put forward the idea of "being gentle, courteous and frugal, and then being a gentleman", thinking that only those who meet it can be regarded as elegant gentlemen.

Therefore, his educational policy is to have both ability and political integrity, and pay equal attention to moral education and knowledge education.

In terms of teaching methods, Confucius requires teachers to have the educational philosophy of "teaching without distinction" and "managing the country to help the world", the methodology of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and "heuristic", and pay attention to early childhood education and enlightenment education.

He educates students to have an honest learning attitude, be open-minded and eager to learn, review what they have learned from time to time, so as to "review the past and learn new things", broaden and deepen the extension of new knowledge, and "draw inferences from others".