The famous sayings on educational thought are as follows:

1. For those who know how to teach, it is better to speak naturally than to accept the teachings; instead of seeking uniformity, it is better to expand their broad nature.

2. Education is the education of people’s souls, rather than the accumulation of intellectual knowledge and understanding. The essence of education means: one tree shakes another tree, one cloud shakes another cloud, one soul awakens another soul.

3. Education is not about forcing children or young people to absorb external things, but it is about enabling human beings to develop their innate abilities.

4. The ultimate goal of education is not to teach what already exists, but to induce people’s creative power and awaken their sense of life and value.

5. What should be taught is the method of thinking, not the results of thinking.

6. The true meaning of education is to let children learn to observe with their own eyes, think with their own brains, and express with their own mouths.

7. The real purpose of education is not only to emphasize people doing good deeds, but also to teach people to discover joy from good deeds.

8. A good teacher must have a good scholar, and then his teaching will be of great benefit. The teacher can only show the goodness of the progress, and the success of the progress lies in people's self-enlightenment.

9. The purpose of education is to replace an empty soul with a mind that can accept new ideas.

10. What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot, but they don’t know the most useful things.

11. The school should be the place that students and teachers yearn for most. The only source of respect for teachers by students lies in the morality and talent of teachers.

12. Some people say that teachers are candles, gardeners, and paving stones; but I think: teachers are matches, and students are candles, igniting a lifetime of glory with a momentary flame.

13. To develop students' emotions, teachers must have sincere feelings. Only when teachers have true feelings can they use their own feelings to understand the author's feelings in the textbooks, and then infect students with them.

14. Growth requires encouragement. In the face of failure or success, children most need comfort or encouragement from adults, and students most expect fair evaluation and positive affirmation from teachers. If teachers take up the weapon of praise, they can reduce students' discouragement after failure and increase students' confidence after success.

15. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.