"University" puts forward "three programs" and "eight items", emphasizing that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to keep the family in order, govern the country and level the world, and expounds the internal relationship between governing the country and level the world and personal moral cultivation.
Some people also summed up the "six syndromes" according to the relationship between the "three cardinal guides" and "eight cardinal guides".
Six syndromes: stop, settle, be calm, be safe, worry and gain.
Nan, a famous master of Chinese studies, put forward a new view of three cardinal guides and eight cardinal guides. He pointed out that it should be four cardinal principles, seven certificates and eight orders.
Four principles: the way of university, virtue, closeness to the people and perfection.
Seven syndromes: knowing, stopping, deciding, deciding, being safe, worrying and gaining.
Eight goals: discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world.
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. The "pro" and "new" here are innovation, abandoning the old and drawing new pictures.
The so-called "stop at the best" is to achieve the best state of Confucian feudal ethics. "A gentleman stops at benevolence, a minister stops at respect, a son stops at filial piety, a father stops at kindness, and making friends with Chinese people stops at faith." This is the educational planning and training goal put forward by the university.