"The way of a university lies in virtue", which means that the purpose of a university is to promote open and aboveboard morality.

From the beginning of "University": "The way of a university is to be well-known and close to the people, and stop at perfection."

Author: Ceng Zi

The way of university refers to the purpose of university. The word "university" had two meanings in ancient times: one was "erudite"; The second is "adult learning" relative to primary schools. Ancient eight-year primary schools learned basic cultural knowledge and etiquette such as "sweeping to cope with advance and retreat, shooting books to be polite and happy"; At the age of fifteen, I went to college to study ethics, politics, philosophy and other knowledge, such as "being poor means being benevolent, cultivating self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world".

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The value influence of "university";

1, the university proposed political philosophy major. Universities theorized and popularized Confucianism in a short space, which was convenient for scholars to learn and master, and Confucianism provided a guarantee for the stability of feudal dynasties.

2. The University can be regarded as the first book of scientific enlightenment. It is pointed out that "sincerity and integrity" is an essential scientific research mentality, "learning from others" is the only way to know, "stopping at perfection" is the pursuit of perfection, and "improving day by day" is a strong sense of innovation.

3. Although "University" is full of subjective idealism philosophy, it has important expositions of simple materialism philosophy, such as "things have a beginning and an end", acknowledging the beginning and end of things; The proposed "radical cure" recognizes the law of governing the country.

Understand the way of university;

It has cast the personality psychology of China intellectuals from generation to generation, and it still plays a subtle role in us.

Whether you are conscious or unconscious, whether you are positive or negative, the concept of "discipline, dedication, sincerity, honesty, cultivation, uniformity, governance and peace" always affects your thoughts or actions implicitly or obviously, making your life course unfold on the ladder of Confucian learning.

In fact, as intellectuals in China, how many people are really wild crane hermits who made their debut in Buddhism? In the final analysis, there are still ten people and nine Confucianism, that's all.

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