儒学的嬗变及其对教育的影响

TRANSMUTATION OF CONFUCIANISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION

孔子开私人讲学之先河，创立了儒家学派。儒家学说几经演变，由原始儒学而经学，而玄学，而中兴，直至理学，发展成为比较完整而庞大的思想体系，横亘于整个封建社会。可以说，任何一家学说都无法取代儒学的地位，无论哪一个封建朝代都离不开儒学，无论哪一个封建统治者都不会放弃儒学，整个封建社会的教育几乎是儒学的教育。

Confucius was the forerunner of private schools and founded the Confucian school of thought. Confucianism went through a series of hanges - changes from primitive Confucianism to the studies of Confucian classics, to Hsun-hsueh ( metaphysics), through a period of resurgence ,and finally to the emergence of a comparatively complete and enormous ideological system, permeating the whole feudal society. We may safely say that no school of thought can replace the position of Confucianism, no feudal dynasty could do without Confucianism, and no feudal ruler would give up Confucianism, and the education throughout the whole of feudal society was the education of Confucianism, which shows its profound influence on education.