Pay equal attention to learning and thinking: learning and thinking should be done at the same time and treated equally. That is to say, when there is another word that is connected with the same emphasis, the word is interpreted according to the meaning of the previous word.

“Pay equal attention to learning and thinking” is Confucius’ educational viewpoint. He believed that learning and thinking are the two basic links in the process of further education. "The Analects of Confucius" says: "Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means peril." Thinking and learning are interdependent, and they complement each other.

Learning is the prerequisite for thinking. Only by learning certain knowledge and adding your own thinking can you form your own theoretical system. If you just think blindly without knowing how to master and supplement knowledge, you will be spinning in circles and unable to find new breakthroughs.

Confucius was the first person in the history of education in my country to devote his entire life to education. He had a profound impact on the educational activities of later generations. Confucius' thoughts, doctrines and deeds were recorded by his disciples and later compiled into a book called "The Analects of Confucius". This is the most important material for studying Confucius' educational thoughts.

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Confucius’ educational thoughts have been continuously enriched with the development of history. In different eras and different historical periods, people have different opinions on him. In the first chapter "Introduction", the author analyzes various judgments in the long history: During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius's teachings were not taken seriously by the rulers, and some conservative parts of them were opposed by progressive thinkers.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, a unified landlord class regime was established. Confucius’s teachings received strong support from the feudal aristocracy, and thus gradually became the dominant ideology in our country for more than 2,000 years; Wang Mang in the Han Dynasty was the first to confer Confucius as a He was praised as Duke Xuanni; after that, in the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, Confucius was successively named king; in the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the increase in the power of the emperor, Confucius' throne was reduced to the position of master; at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was restored. Respect Confucius as the "leader".

After the "May 4th" Movement, Confucius's status changed fundamentally. As the representative of feudal culture, Confucius, his cultural dominance must of course be overthrown. In the areas ruled by the Kuomintang, Confucius was quickly restored to a lofty status equal to that of heaven, earth, sun and moon in order to satisfy the needs of enslaving education.

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