Speaking of Confucius, he can be regarded as a very legendary figure in the history of Chinese literature, he is the leader of Confucian thought, although the Confucianism he advocated did not succeed at that time, but he did not give up his ideas, but turned his energy into educating his disciples, his students are very large, once reached more than three thousand people, his own lifelong learning and various words and deeds were recorded by his disciples, wrote a book, which is widely circulated by posterity, that is, the Analects as we know it. In the history of ancient Chinese literature, Confucius was an indispensable legend, and everyone often heard some of the most reasonable quotes he said, and his Confucian thought had a great influence on people at that time, and later generations also honored him as a saint.
Although Confucius was a famous teacher, there were also good and bad among his more than three thousand disciples, among which there were only a few proud protégés who could be recognized by Confucius, and Confucius also wrote "Seventy-two Sages" in his own articles, in fact, this is to say that in his view, among all his disciples, the more prominent disciples, although the more prominent here does not mean that Confucius recognizes all their achievements. What does that mean?
For example, one of the seventy-two outstanding disciples of Confucius was named Zaiyu, and Confucius felt that Zaiyu was too capable of speaking the Tao, liked to be opportunistic, and had no real ability, and the same was true in front of Confucius, who often liked to make discordant voices in Confucius's classroom and disrupt the order of the classroom. And because of his idea of keeping filial piety for a year, Confucius thought that he was not filial piety, that he was weak and unrighteous, and that he was disappointed in him.
Zaiyu this is very self- he always does not like to put others in his eyes, feel that what he is right, and Confucius is also in response to his shortcomings and often teaches him, to help him correct his own bad thoughts, but it is useless, Zaiyu still does not put Confucius's teachings in his heart, once or twice is fine, the time is long, Confucius is very annoyed, thinking that Zaiyu has been hopeless. And Zaiyu often stayed at home to sleep and did not go to class, for this kind of student, Mo said confucius, even in today's era when education is very popular, we have no way, so Confucius scolded: "Rotten wood cannot be carved, and the wall of dung and soil cannot be carved" After saying this sentence, he no longer cares about him. And this sentence has been passed down to this day for thousands of years.
No one expected that such a sentence would be handed down and now become the "mantra" of many teachers! Now we often hear teachers use this phrase to describe students who have little need to teach. I don't know if you've heard it, I don't know what you think of this sentence.