Confucius’ ancestral home was Liyi, Song State, which now belongs to Xiayi County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province. His birthplace, Zouyi, Lu State, now belongs to Qufu City, Shandong Province.
Confucius created the style of private lectures and advocated benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust. He had three thousand disciples, among whom were seventy-two sages. He once led some of his disciples to travel around the country for fourteen years, and revised the Six Classics (Poetry, Book, Rites, Music, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals) in his later years. After his death, his disciples and subsequent disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotes and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into The Analects of Confucius. The book is regarded as a Confucian classic.
Confucius was one of the most erudite scholars in society at that time. He was revered as the "Sage of Heaven" and the "Muduo of Heaven" when he was still alive. Saint, the most holy teacher, the most holy teacher of Dacheng Wenxuan Wang, the teacher for all generations.
His thoughts have a profound impact on China and the world, and he is listed as the first among the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World". As the influence of Confucius expanded, the "Confucius Ceremony" to worship Confucius once became a ceremony on the same level as the Chinese ancestor gods.
Confucius’ educational thoughts:
The main contents of Confucius’ moral education are “propriety” and “benevolence”. Among them, "propriety" is the moral norm, and "benevolence" is the highest moral principle. "Ritual" is the form of "benevolence", and "benevolence" is the content of "ritual". With the spirit of "benevolence", "ritual" can be truly enriched. In terms of moral cultivation, he proposed methods such as establishing ambition, self-denial, practice, introspection, and the courage to make corrections.
“Learn to know” is the dominant idea of ??Confucius’ teaching thought. While advocating not being ashamed to ask questions and being open-minded and eager to learn, he emphasized the combination of learning and thinking. At the same time, he must also "apply what he has learned" and apply the learned knowledge to social practice.
In terms of teaching methods, Confucius required teachers to have the educational outlook of "teaching without distinction" and "economicalizing the country and the world", the methodology of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and "heuristic" methodology, and focusing on children's enlightenment and enlightenment education.
He educates students to have an honest attitude towards learning, to be humble and eager to learn, and to review the knowledge they have learned from time to time, so that they can “review the past and learn the new”, expand and deepen the new knowledge, and “examine one thing and learn something new.” three". He was the first to propose heuristic teaching. He said: "If you are not angry, you are not enlightened; if you are not angry, you are not angry." This means that teachers should inspire and enlighten students appropriately when they think seriously and have reached a certain level.