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What contribution did Confucius make in education?
Confucius' contribution to education includes the following four aspects:

1、? Confucius pioneered private schools and recruited students. Organize and take poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, Yi, Yue and the Six Classics of Spring and Autumn as teaching materials, and the six arts of ceremony, music, shooting, imperial palace, calligraphy and mathematics as educational contents.

2. Breaking the monopoly of slave owners and nobles on school education, expanding the scope of education to ordinary people, conforming to the trend of social development at that time, breaking the rich-poor level of education, and the outline of "teaching without distinction" made everyone enjoy equal educational rights.

3. In terms of teaching methods, Confucius requires teachers to have the educational philosophy of "teaching without distinction" and "saving the world through the country", 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".

4. Confucius first proposed heuristic teaching. He said, "No anger, no anger, no anger." This means that when students think seriously and reach a certain level, teachers should inspire and inspire students. He was also the earliest educator who adopted the method of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude in teaching practice.

Extended data

Confucius, named Zhong Ni, was born in Lu Yi (now Qufu) in the late Spring and Autumn Period. His ancestral home is Yi Li (now Xiayi, Henan), an ancient thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in China. ?

In ancient times, Confucius was regarded as a "saint of heaven" and a "muduo of heaven". He was one of the most learned scholars in the society at that time, and was respected by later rulers as Confucius' sage, the most holy, the most holy teacher, the most holy teacher, the teacher of kings and the teacher of generations. His thoughts have a far-reaching influence on China and the world, and he is listed as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World".

Confucius initiated the atmosphere of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. In his later years, he revised the Six Classics of Poetry, Book, Rite, Music, Yijing and Chunqiu.

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