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Ah, it's time to go back to school once again. Those of us in the teaching world are this week sitting up dazed in bed, wondering where the vacation went, grabbing the lecture notes while gulping coffee, and gearing up to battle the forces of ignorance. It's a great life being teacher, but not for the impatient.
In our world, we look back to the great teachers of the Bible and of classical Greece as the founders of western intellectual tradition. But in the east, the great Kung Fu-tzu is the equalivant of Socrates or Moses as the foundational teacher. Known to us as Confucius, the Master has had a vast and long-lasting impact on eastern thought. He was a schoolteacher, philosopher and a religious writer.See the full content of this document
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Gregory Elder
Confucius was born in 551 B.C. in the city state of Lu, in what is now part of the People's Republic of China. He was a polymath who learned and synthesized every ancient document he could lay hands on. After a troubled childhood of being an orphan and working with his hands to make a...
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