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Confucius        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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