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Confucius
(551 B.C.-479 B.C.), great thinker, politician, educator,
and founder of Confucianism in the history of China. As
the founder of Chinese ancient education theory, he created
the fashion of private lecturing, and expanded the education
objects. He compiled Poetry, Shu, Courtesy, Music,
Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn(later called "Six
Classics")and made indelible achievement in keeping
and spreading ancient culture books. On education theories,
he believed that education has a decisive function on
the grow and development of a person; on education object,
he proposed the opinion of providing education without
discrimination; he initiated the form of private school,
reformed the education content and divided four subjects
of ethics, speech, politics and literature; he also exercised
the theory of "teaching a student according to their
aptitude"; he invented the inspiring teaching method,
advocated the equality of students and teachers, and the
democracy of teaching and studying. |
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