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A Comparative Study of Confucian Junzi Education and John Locke’s Gentleman Education
DAI Cong-cong, LI Ju-yuan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2020.11.008
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 511400 China
Both in ancient China and Western countries educators emphasized cultivation of students’emotions, personality and character, among whom Confucius, the great Chinese thinker and educator and Locke, the famous British political thinker, philosopher and educator are two representative figures. The former contended the primary concern on cultivation of Junzi, an idealized personality with virtue and righteousness and the latter pushed the modern Western gentleman education to the summit under the unique British noble system and the tradition of elite education. This paper makes a contrastive study of Confucius’s Junzi education and Locke’s gentleman education. Through analyzing and comparing the unique Confucian moral principles and Locke’s insights into gentleman education, the study finds that although there are common grounds and similarities between Confucian Junzi education and Locke’s gentleman education, they are different from each other in teaching target groups, teaching methods and teaching contents. This study helps to bring a significant rethinking for character cultivation and enrich the contemporary educational ideas from a cross-cultural perspective.
Confucius, Locke, junzi education, gentleman education
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