Educators Guild
Primary/secondary Education - Palermo, Sicilia, Italy
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Association of Social, Civic and Cultural Promotion of Education and Educators.CONFUCIAN EDUCATION "At fifteen, I decided to learn. At thirty, I was firm on the Way. At forty, I had no more doubts. At fifty, including the decree of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was perfectly in tune. At seventy I acted following my heart, without thereby violating any norm. " - ConfuciusAnyone who has the desire to get closer to the world of Chinese education, and to Chinese civilization in general, must certainly clash with one of, if not its, pillars: Confucius, emblematic figure, at the origin of a phenomenon that does not it has never stopped influencing China and neighboring nations, and whose principles still resonate in the speeches and measures adopted by the Chinese leadership, two thousand five hundred years after the enunciation of its doctrine. It is for this reason that we have chosen to start this topic with a step extrapolated from "The Dialogues", a work in which the words of Confucius were conveyed and representing the most reliable source of testimony that we have about the teachings of the master, constant inspiration for Chinese society.There are three essential guidelines in the articulation of his doctrine, as presented in the Dialogues, as can be seen from the passage previously inserted: learning, the peculiar quality of man and the civil ritual.And this is how to talk about education in China we will start from the importance recognized to learning by Confucius, to whom he gives a crucial role in a person's life. According to Confucian doctrine, the purpose of learning would consist in the formation of a man capable of serving the community on a political level and of becoming a man of moral value. In doing so, the political destiny of the educated man is immediately outlined, who is aware of his social responsibility in the process of harmonization of the human community.
