Confucius’ educational thought: teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and teach without distinction.

Significance: Confucius’ educational concepts such as virtue first, teaching without distinction, and mutual learning through teaching, as well as teaching methods that focus on heuristic teaching methods and promote students’ all-round development, still have important enlightenment significance for modern education.

Modern education should focus on moral education and advocate all-round development; focus on giving full play to the role of students as the main body and strengthen thinking ability training; focus on improving the level of teachers to achieve lifelong learning; focus on students' physical and mental development and establish friendship , harmonious teacher-student relationship.

The historical and social background of the emergence and development of Confucius’ educational thoughts:

Confucius’ era was a historical transitional period when slave society gradually declined and the emerging feudal system gradually emerged. He was the representative of this transitional period. transitional figures of the period. Confucius’ thoughts basically represented the more enlightened thoughts of slave owners at that time, and to a certain extent reflected the tendency and requirements of social progress.

The second chapter of the book introduces that Confucius was born in a declining slave-owning aristocratic family. He was "young and humble". He lived among the lower classes for a long time and understood the wishes and requirements of the people. At the same time, he had the relationship with those in power. If you have the opportunity to interact with others, you can become an official. This is the reason why Confucius thought of being loyal to the emperor and loving the people.

The State of Lu, where Confucius was born, was the center of culture at that time. The laws and regulations of the Zhou Dynasty were best preserved in the State of Lu. Confucius had been influenced by the culture of the Western Zhou Dynasty since he was a child, so he was very familiar with and admired the Zhou rites. "I "From Zhou" are his words from the heart.