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Mencius

 

 

        Mencius (Around 372 B. C. to 289 B. C.), famous ancient thinker, educator and successor of Confucianism. In his teaching activity, he emphasized on morality education with ethics as its basic education content. He also made many incisive opinions on morality, culture, education and teaching methods. He advocated self-examination and self-supervision, emphasized on aspiration, required students to make assiduous anneal, required teachers to teach in accordance with student's aptitude, emphasized inspiration, inducement and develop in proper sequence.

 
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