Confucius is a thinker, politician and educator.

Why did Confucius become a thinker, politician and educator?

Educator: Because he founded the school, he put forward the teaching policy of "teaching without distinction", which had a great influence on the poor students in the Warring States period. Thinker: The Confucianism he initiated had a great influence on feudal society, and the thought of "benevolence" still affects us. ① Educator: Confucius was a great educator in ancient China. He started a private school, which was "all-teaching" and the tuition was very low (only ten pieces of dried meat), so he trained a large number of students. Although Confucius did not regard education as an "industry", he enrolled as many as 3,000 students (this number is amazing today), and the academic system is not limited to four years. Many students will be taught by them for life as soon as they arrive at school. After the death of Confucius, disciples were handed down from generation to generation, and many of them became elites of Chinese culture, and their influence has reached the contemporary era and spread far and wide overseas. It can be said that in the history of education in China, no great man can be compared with Confucius, and later people call him the Great Sage, which should be well deserved. ② Thinker: Because his thought is Confucianism and China's orthodoxy. In the face of endless wars between princes and the people in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius did not create an external and transcendent all-knowing and all-powerful savior like religious scholars-regulating people's thoughts and behaviors through apocalypse and Oracle. But looking back at history and looking for wisdom from the ancient "holy king". Confucius claimed to be "narrating without doing", in fact, taking "narrating" as "doing", and realized the superposition and transformation of values through the contemporary interpretation of historical traditions. He is upright, optimistic and enterprising, pursuing truth, goodness and beauty all his life and pursuing an ideal society all his life. His success and failure are related to his personality. His character has influenced China people for thousands of years, especially the intellectuals in China.

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