From the "Book of Rites. Records of Learning":
To be a teacher, you must first correct yourself before you can teach and educate others. This is the foundation of teacher ethics.
The "Book of Rites", also known as "The Book of Rites of Xiao Dai" and "The Book of Xiao Dai", is said to have been written by the seventy-two disciples of Confucius and his students. It was compiled by Dai Shengsuo, a ritual scholar of the Western Han Dynasty. It is an important anthology of laws and regulations in ancient China, consisting of twenty volumes and forty-nine chapters.
It mainly records the ritual system of the Pre-Qin Dynasty and embodies the philosophical thoughts of the Pre-Qin Confucians (such as the view of heaven, the universe, and the outlook on life), educational thoughts (such as personal self-cultivation, education system, teaching methods, and school management), Political thought (such as the use of education to transform politics, harmonious society, ritual system and criminal law), and aesthetic thought (such as the theory of things moving the mind, the theory of harmony in ritual and music) are important materials for the study of pre-Qin society, and it is a collection of materials on Confucian thought.
The "Book of Rites" is rigorous in composition, vivid in reflections, tactful in diction, echoing back and forth, and the language is neat and changeable. It is one of the "Three Rites", one of the "Five Classics", and the "Thirteen Classics" one. Since Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty made the "annotation", the status of "Book of Rites" has been rising day by day. By the Tang Dynasty, it was regarded as a "Classic". After the Song Dynasty, it ranked first among the "Three Rites".
The ancient cultural history knowledge and ideological doctrines recorded in the "Book of Rites" have an important impact on the inheritance of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral cultivation, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
Reference materials:
Book of Rites_Baidu Encyclopedia