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Lecture Three Chinese Education
The very democratic nature of Chinese education--., that it offered a path of upward mobility to anyone who could survive the rigors of study and examinations--was established from the first by Confucius himself. A traditional saying attributed to him states that "those who work with their heads will rule, while those who work with their hands will serve." To that end, education thus became a strategy for survival in a country where poverty and hardship had challenged the lives of millions for countless millennia.
Six Arts :
Rites/rituals( ritual and rules); music (ceremonial music and ritual dances); archery; chariot-riding/ charioteering; history/writing/calligraphy; mathematics/ computation
Five Confucian classics:
Book of Odes, History, Ritual, Change, and The Spring and Autumn Annals
Four Books
The Great Learning
The Doctrine of the Mean
The Confucian Analects
The Works of Mencius
Private School Thriving in the Spring and Autumn Period
mendation through Observation in the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220)
The Nine Grades of Rank in the Regime System in the Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties
Imperial Examination as the Main Form of Education
Origin of Imperial Examination in Sui Dynasty
Radication in the Tang Dyansty
Innovation in Education System
Full-Bloom in the Ming Dynasty
The provincial and metropolitan examiners t