Mencius' educational thought is also the inheritance and development of Confucius' educational thought of "teaching without class". They all regard education for all as the means and purpose of benevolent governance. On the one hand, it advocates "setting up a school to teach it in an emergency" (in Teng Wengong's chapter) to strengthen school education; On the other hand, those in power need to set an example.
"Ren Jun, ruthless; Junyi, all righteousness; Jun Zheng, Zheng Mo. " Educate the people with the power of example. The purpose of education is to make people "understand human relations", so as to establish an ideal society with harmonious and orderly human relations.
The interpersonal relationship of wang yangming in ming dynasty.
Wang Yangming further expanded the scope of Mencius' theory of human relations in the Ming Dynasty. Wang Yangming once said: "The human heart is only in danger, but the heart is only subtle, only refined and only unique. They are allowed to learn from others. What is intentional can be said to be spontaneous, and people's hearts are fake. " In Wang Yangming's view, as long as it is "not mixed with others", all actions and thoughts can be regarded as "the study of virtue"
So Wang Yangming is talking about conscience, and the study of human relations in Ming Dynasty is the study of conscience. Everyone has a conscience. As long as everyone acts according to his conscience and sincerity, he can become a saint. Therefore, Wang Yangming emphasized that the purpose of education is to understand human relations, that is, to put "respecting morality" in the first place and educate disciples to be people with conscience and noble moral cultivation.