用英語說中國文化藝術 第22期:思想教育和文化之孔子簡介
The Introduction of Confucius
Confucius was China's first educator. He taught students all his life, and put forward many important educational principles and effective teaching methods. He held that all men were educable, because by nature men were quite alike, and they were made different by learning and practice.
孔子是中國第一個教育家。他的一生都在教書，並提出了許多重要的教育原則和有效的教學方法。他認爲，所有的人都是可教的，因爲人的本性是一樣的，因爲學習和實踐他們才變得不同。This was in his day an epoch-making view, because it meant that not only the nobles，but people of all other classes，were entitled to receive education. His teaching methods included the eliciting method, giving instructions according to students' peculiarities, and combining theory with reality and practice. To deepen his students, understanding, he discussed with them real people and events of earlier times and his day, expressing his own views, making analys, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, and urging his students to weigh and decide issues. It was regrettable that the master was not free from prejudices against women and never accepted a female student.
這是他當時一個劃時代的觀點，因爲這意味着不僅是貴族，還包括所有其他階層的人，有權獲得教育。他的教學方法，包括誘導，因材施教，並結合理論聯繫實際和實踐。爲了加深對他的學生的瞭解，他與他們討論早期真實發生的人和事，和他自己的生活，表達自己的意見，給他們分析，指出他們自己的長處和弱點，並敦促他的學生權衡利弊和對問題作決定。令人遺憾的是，孔子並沒有擺脫對婦女的偏見，從來沒有接收過一個女學生。
