1. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions. ——Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, "The Analects of Confucius: Gongye Chang"

Vernacular: A person who is talented, intelligent and eager to learn is not ashamed to ask for advice from those who are lower in status and less knowledgeable than himself.

2. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by play; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness. ——Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty, "Jin Xue Jie"

Vernacular: Only hard work can lead to success in studies. You should think more about things and don't do things casually.

3. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger. ——Confucius' "Ten Analects of Confucius" in the Spring and Autumn Period

Vernacular Chinese: If you only know how to study but don't know how to think, you will learn in vain; if you only know how to think but don't learn, it will become harmful.

4. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy. ——The Ten Analects of Confucius by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period

Vernacular: Those who understand it are not as good as those who love it; those who love it are not as good as those who take pleasure in it.

5. When three of us travel together, we must be our teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——The Ten Analects of Confucius by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period

Vernacular: If three people walk together, one of them must be my teacher. I choose his good qualities to learn from him, and when I see his bad qualities, I use them as a reference to correct my own shortcomings.

6. Be inspired by "Poetry", be based on etiquette, and be successful in music. ——The Analects of Confucius Taibo by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period

Vernacular Chinese: (Human cultivation) begins with studying "Poetry", becomes self-reliant by studying rituals, and is completed by studying music.

7. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. ——The Ten Principles of the Analects of Confucius by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period

Vernacular: Don’t impose on others what you don’t want to do.

8. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Twenty-Two Rhymes from Wei Zuocheng"

Vernacular: Read a lot of books, read the books thoroughly, and then implement them in writing, and you will be able to use them with ease.

9. There are three aspects of reading, namely, understanding with the heart, understanding with the eyes, and understanding with the mouth. ——Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty, "Xun Xue Zhai Gui"

Vernacular: To study with concentration, the three must be in place.

10. To establish oneself, study is the first priority, and to study is based on reading. ——Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty, "Collected Works of Ouyang Wenzhong"

Vernacular: To cultivate one's self through reading, learning should be the most important task; and if one wants to teach knowledge, the knowledge in books should be the foundation.