The Contemporary Social Value of Encouraging Learning Held by Confucian School

Encouraging learning in Confucian culture refers to that the Confucian School in ancient China encouraged individual or group to carry out kindness, cultivate rites, uphold morality and learn which included both encouraging learning type and encouraging learning content. In the developing history of Confucian culture, encouraging learning of Confucian School formed correspondingly independent system and independent tradition, which embodied in five sections, they were: carrying out honesty and kindness by exercising self-restraint and returning to rites; following the self-restraint quality of 'the great man'; ceaselessly learning and molding one′s character; only esteeming Confucian learning and enrolling scholars according to classical works; carrying out imperial civil examination system to collect men of ability. In these five courses, the encouraging learning action held by Confucian School showed its own special rules and the contemporary social value. The rules were: the encouraging mode had successive nature; the content of the learning encouraged had expanding nature. The contemporary social value mainly embodied as: 1) It gave good moral human norm to Chinese Nationality; 2) It enhanced the moral quality of Chinese Nationality in certain degree; 3) It played an important part in enhancing the cultural level of Chinese Nationality.