1, it is often said that it is never too late to learn, which has been confirmed by Xunzi's study in the article "Persuade Learning".
2. Emphasize that daydreaming is not as good as learning: I have been thinking about it all day, so I might as well learn it in a moment.
3. This paper emphasizes that learning should be single-minded, and sets a metaphor from the front, pointing out that even if it is as weak as an earthworm, it will achieve something single-minded: the earthworm has no advantages as a pawn, but its bones and muscles are strong, and it eats soil and drinks yellow mud and is single-minded.
4. Emphasis is on the difference between gentlemen, but a sentence that is good at using external forces: gentlemen are different, and good at personal leave.
5. The sentence "So disciples don't have to be inferior to teachers, and teachers don't have to be superior to disciples" in Han Yu's Teacher's Theory is the same as that in Xunzi's Persuasion.
6. Xunzi said in "Encouraging Learning" that a gentleman needs to improve himself through extensive study. These two sentences are: a gentleman is knowledgeable and saves himself every day, so he knows what he is and has no fault.
7. At the beginning of "encouraging learning", the central argument of the whole paper is put forward, that is, "learning alone is not enough". The sentences that make it clear that learning should be persistent are: perseverance, a dead wood cannot be carved; Perseverance, the stone can be carved.
8. "So the wood is straight and the gold is sharp when the rope is tied." Through the change of "wood" and "gold", it is further explained that objective things can change the original situation after artificial transformation.