When it comes to college entrance examination and education, there must be no one person, that is, Confucius. Why? Every year in May and June or even earlier, those parents who go to the temples of literature in various places to burn incense and make wishes are confucius.
As the most accomplished and influential educator in China's history, Confucius's single "teaching without class" has actually opened up the situation of niche education that was only limited to the princes and nobles at that time, although it has not yet been opened to the more popular ordinary residents at the bottom, but it has opened up many, many channels for education.
Therefore, the phrase "teaching without class" includes both a gift in learning and the right to education for a person, regardless of class.
Therefore, from the perspective of education alone, Confucius's contribution can indeed reach the level of "saints". However, during Confucius's lifetime and for a long time after his death, Confucius, the mythical "saint", actually did not have much prominence. At best, among the thousands of disciples of Confucius, the Seventy-Two Sages, and mencius and other successors of Confucianism in later generations, the folk enjoyed extraordinary academic status.
Let's take a brief look at Confucius. Confucius's name Qiu Zi Zhongni, why there is this name, it is said that his mother Yan Zheng, when she was pregnant with Confucius, once went to Niqiu Mountain to pray, and got its name after birth.
In fact, even the founders of orthodox thought that have occupied China's feudal society for thousands of years have a certain degree of controversy about their origins. Confucius's father was named Shu Liang Qi, who had three wives. The first original wife and Uncle Liang Qi, a scholar of the Lu state and a brave general of the Lu state, gave birth to a total of nine children. However, it is a pity that Shu Liang's first nine children are all daughters.
In desperation, Uncle Liang Hui married a concubine, and this concubine actually gave birth to a son named Meng Pi. Explain here that Confucius's father was named Shu Liangyi, and each name was Meng Pi, and none of his surname was Sun? In fact, Confucius's ancestors were the descendants of Yin Shang, and by the time of Confucius's six generations of ancestors, the surname Sun had already been determined.
The reason why Confucius's father, King Qisheng, was called Shu Liang Qi and his brother was called Meng Pi, was because there was an ancient saying that Uncle Zhong was uncle Ji. Confucius's father was the third eldest in the family, so he was called Shu Liang qi, in fact, according to the current name, Confucius's father should be called Kong Qi, and Confucius's brother should be called Kong Pi.
Speaking of Confucius's origin, Meng Pi is a son, is this not the wish of Shu Liang to be childless under the knees of Uncle Liang? However, the son is indeed a son, but Meng Pi has a foot disease and is inconvenient for his legs and feet. Such a result. According to ancient etiquette, women and disabled children are not allowed to pass on the family.
In desperation, the 66-year-old Shu Liang Qi found Yan Zheng at home, according to the Confucian classics, when Yan Zheng's father already knew clearly that Shu Liang Qi would give birth to a great talent with great achievements in the future, and asked his three unmarried daughters who would marry Shu Liang Qi, who was already 66 years old at the time. Yan Zhengzai's eldest sister and second sister both hated uncle Liang Qi's age, not to mention 66 years old in that era, and it was not common to live to be forty or fifty years old. Finally, Yan Zheng replied to his father, you have said that you can give birth to great talents, so what else can I say?
As a result, Yan Zhengzai married Shu Liangyi, and at the age of 66, he gave birth to Confucius. In fact, the reason why Confucius was controversially born as a wild union by later generations was not that the 66-year-old scholar-master Uncle Liang Qi and the then 18-year-old Yan Zheng were really in the wilderness, but because the etiquette system at that time stipulated that the marriageable childbearing age for men was between 16 and 64 years old, and the female was between 14 and 49 years old.
When Confucius was born, The Qisheng King's uncle Liang Qi was already 66 years old, which was one of the reasons why Confucius was born out of the wild; on the other hand, in ancient times, it was very important to pay attention to the door to the right household, Shu Liang Was also a scholar and doctor, and Yan Zheng was young, in fact, he was from a humble origin, and the social status between his parents was far apart, so the child who was born in the end would also be regarded as "wild union". In fact, for those opponents of Confucius passing by at that time, their original meaning should be to say wild species, but the ancients were also more aware of etiquette and euphemism, so they would say that it was a wild union.
Of course, because of Confucius's achievements and status in history, especially the idea of being loyal to the country and the world, loyalty to the king and patriotism, it is of great benefit to the rule of feudal society, and can even play a role in stabilizing people's hearts. Under such circumstances, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty began, Confucianism became orthodox, and Confucius, as a saint, naturally followed the historical study of Confucius-centered "saint-based" in terms of title, which is why Kong Qiuzi Zhongni was because he was the second oldest among the ranked family, so Zi Zhongni.
Later things, in fact, everyone is very familiar with or have heard, Confucius began to resign at the age of 55 to travel around the world, taught thousands of disciples, appeared seventy-two sages, on the way around also preached their own doctrine, the four disciplines and ten philosophies began to spread to more people, and Confucius's works and the "Analects" collected by posterity were also widely circulated.
Therefore, from the perspective of pure education, Confucius and the Confucian culture he founded have opened up a new situation in China's education to a certain extent. Did the latecomers do it better than Confucius? For the time being, it seems that there are no such great educators and thinkers, and even if they did, the situation and pressure they faced were not as arduous as the situation faced by Confucius.
Of course, there is no single person, but our new China has completely realized the "teaching without class" of education, and from the perspective of our country's history, this is also an unprecedented pioneering work and a great cause. Therefore, students should also cherish the current learning opportunities, work hard, and strive to master more professional knowledge. Even if you can make more money just to find a good job in the future, this is what you must do!