Several links of Xunzi's teaching process or learning process during the Warring States Period in China. Xunzi believed that learning should start with "smell" and end with "action".

Put forward: "The learning of a gentleman is also in the ear, in the heart, in the four bodies, and in the dynamic shape." It means: the learning of a gentleman means listening to what he has learned, keeping it in mind, melting into the whole body and mind, and showing it in every move. Even the smallest words and deeds can be an example for others to follow.

"Xunzi Confucianism and filial piety" said: "If you don't smell it, if you don't smell it, if you don't look at it, if you don't know it, if you know it, if you can't, you will stop learning and do it." It means: listening is better than not listening, seeing is better than listening, knowing is better than seeing, and doing is better than knowing. The ultimate goal of learning is practice. If you practice, you will understand.

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The concept of knowing and doing "learning only lies in doing"

On the view of knowing and doing, Xunzi put forward the proposition that "learning stops at doing". He believes that the foothold of cognition lies in "behavior", which is both the source and the purpose of knowledge.

But Xunzi's so-called behavior can not be understood by social practice, but refers to people's moral behavior. Therefore, the so-called "learning to do", that is, "learning to be polite", makes subjective moral behavior conform to the realistic social moral norms, and finally reaches the point of "extreme morality" ("encouraging learning").

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Baidu encyclopedia-Xunzi