Education, Past and Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9759036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William James Hail (Yale in China; Department of History, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio) |
| Year | 1930 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-54 |
| Publication date | 1930-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271623015200107 |
| OpenAlex | W1977192052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
UNTIL the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese education was dominated by ancient standards because it prepared men for official life in a well-nigh static society. Its content was rigidly bounded by the limits of the Confucian Classics, which, against all rivals, had triumphed about the beginning of our era because they preserved a philosophy of life which combined practical common sense with family solidarity sustained by ancestral worship, a lofty religion culminating in the Imperial sacrifices to Heaven and Earth, and a definite code of individual duties to society known as the five relationships-those of prince and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger brothers, and friends. The aim was to produce a princely man. Of the rivals to Confucianism, Taoism, with a philosophy of quietism attributed to a certain Lao Tze--who may or may not have existed--had frittered away its birthright by absorbing the miscellaneous superstitions of the race and launching forth in quest of some philosophers' stone to transmute base metals into gold or to secure an elixir of immortality from potent substances. The followers of Mo Ti
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2010 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |