I would rather die with my life than be tempted, and devote my life to education instead of being an official. ——Zhang Boling

Learning can suppress ignorance and save the country; learning can seek the truth and improve personality. ——Zhang Boling

During the period of schooling, all students should take the Tao, the body, and knowledge as the basis for self-reliance. ——Zhang Boling

Beautiful flowers might as well be watered by excrement, and I am willing to be the excrement worker. ——Zhang Boling

In a narrow sense, schools are just about reading lessons; in a broad sense, schools are about teaching people. ——Zhang Boling

I often say that you can make money by studying, but you can’t make bad money; you can improve your personal life by studying, but you must also improve the life of the public. ——Zhang Boling

Education is not just about teaching students to read, extracurricular cultivation is more important. Just having "ability" is nothing, it must be "public". ——Zhang Boling

I have neither genius nor special skills. I have worked hard all my life to achieve small achievements simply because I have faith in and interest in education. ——Zhang Boling

The school is like a small testing ground. Everyone in the field is confident that it has the ability to transform society. In the future, when entering society and transforming the country, it will be effective. ——Zhang Boling

People can have bad luck, but they cannot have bad luck! The more unlucky you are, the more you need to have a clean face and hair, clean clothes and shoes, so that you will feel fresh, refreshed and comfortable at first glance, and your bad luck will soon get better. ——Zhang Boling