The three cardinal guides and eight orders in The Way of the University embody the basic thoughts of the ancient thinker Confucianism on human education, fully affirm the social attributes of human beings and emphasize the role of human beings in society and education.

It is concluded that a person's quality (that is, what we call comprehensive quality today) is a measure of the size of his career, which provides lofty guidance for what kind of career he wants to achieve and what direction to take. It is this kind of thought that created the brilliant thought of China's later intellectuals, that is, "if you are rich, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be immune to it".

Literary appreciation

"University" put forward "three programs" and "eight items", emphasizing that self-cultivation is the premise of governing the country and the world, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and the world and personal moral cultivation.

At the beginning of "University", it said: "The way of a university is to show virtue, to be close to the people, and to stop at perfection." This is what later generations call the "three programs" of universities. The so-called "mingde" is the mingde that promotes people's innate endowment. The so-called "being close to the people" means letting people abandon the old and seek the new, and go from evil to good.