1. People who hope that their descendants will be virtuous, but do not respect their teachers, want to nourish their bodies but end up damaging their food and clothing. ——(Qing Dynasty) Wang Zhuo's "The Theory of This World"

2. If you want to know better, ask the three elders. ——The third episode of "Zhongshan Wolf" by Tang Hai.

3. The ancient seeds, the germ of life, are contained within, and they just need to be sown in the soil of the new era. ——Tagore

4. Don’t wait for a moment, as the young man’s head turns gray and there is nothing to be sad about. ——Yue Fei's "Manjianghong·Writing Feelings"

5. Poverty without shame, wealth without arrogance. ——Zigong

6. Those who speak are not guilty, but those who hear are warned. ——Bai Juyi's "Nine Books of the Yuan Dynasty"

7. Learn until you are done with it. ——"Xunzi Encouraging Learning": Learning does not stop until the last moment of life.

8. Learning is as valuable as having a teacher as it is getting a friend. ——Tang Zhen's "Qianshu·Lectures"

9. When a country is about to prosper, it must value its teachers and respect them. ——"Gouzi".

10. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master. ——Du Fu's "Twenty-Two Rhymes from Wei Zuocheng"

11. Correcting one's mistakes and carrying forward one's good qualities is called "cultivation". ——Yan Yuan's "Records of the Words and Actions of Mr. Yan Xizhai"

12. Actions are accomplished by thinking and destroyed by following. ——Han Yu's "Explanation of Jinxue": Virtue is achieved by deep thought, but destroyed by echoing others' opinions. 1 The saint is the teacher of impermanence. ——Han Yu's "Teacher's Theory"

13. No matter where you are, the basis of principles is tradition. ——The United States

14. This kind of clichéd nobility and elegance cannot be more mediocre and inferior. ——Hugo

15. If a jade is not polished, it will become useless; if a person does not learn, he will not know. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"

16. If the meaning of tradition or "passing on from generation to generation" is only to blindly or meticulously follow the style of the predecessors, then tradition is useless. ——Eliot

17. It is unwise to make mistakes without knowing them; it is not courageous to know but cannot change them.

——Li Gou's "The Ninth Book of Changes"