Confucius’s ten methods of reading for children

01. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher. ——\”The Analects of Confucius: Weizheng Chapter\” Review old knowledge to gain new understanding and experience. With this, you can become a teacher. The summer reading recommendation list is out! Let your children fall in love with reading 02. Choose what is good and follow the other three, there must be a teacher like me. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Shuerpian\” There are many people walking together, and there must be someone among them who can be my teacher. I choose his good aspects to learn from him, and when I see his bad aspects, I correct my own shortcomings. 03. Learn while thinking. Learning without thinking will lead to failure. Thinking without learning will lead to peril. ——\”The Analects of Confucius: Weizheng Chapter\” If you study without thinking, you will be confused and gain nothing; if you think without studying, you will not be relevant and confused. 04. Be cautious and cautious when talking about others, and you will be rare. ——\”The Analects of Confucius: Weizheng Chapter\” We should listen more and observe more to eliminate doubts. We should speak cautiously when there are no doubts, so as to reduce mistakes. (There is another understanding of \”duo wen que doubt\”: listen more, keep difficult questions, and do not make judgments.) 05. Be quick to ask questions and be eager to learn, and don\’t feel ashamed to ask. This is called literature. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Gongye Long Chapter\” Be smart and love to learn. You are not ashamed to ask questions of people who are worse than you. You can become a good learner. 06. Concentrate and work hard and forget to eat, be happy and forget about worries, not knowing that old age is coming. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Shuerpian\” Working hard but forgetting to eat, being happy to pursue morality and forgetting sorrow, not knowing that aging is coming. 07. Seek truth from facts, know what you know, know what you don’t know, know what you don’t know, and know what you don’t know. ——\”The Analects of Confucius: Weizheng Chapter\” Knowing means knowing, and not knowing means not knowing. This is the true wisdom. 08. If you fail to learn a moderate sense of urgency, you will be afraid of losing it. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Tai Bo\” Learning knowledge is like chasing something. Once you catch up, you are worried that you will lose it. 09. Being modest is a bad husband and a sycophant. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Advanced Chapter\” The Master hates self-righteous and quibbling people. If we want to learn well, we should keep a humble heart. When others point out problems for us sincerely, we should reflect on ourselves instead of rushing to quibble and fight for victory or defeat. 10. Diligent people die like this, never giving up day and night. ——\”The Analects of Confucius·Zihan Chapter\” Time keeps passing like running water, and it will never return. Life is short, you must seize the time and study hard.