The educational code of Confucius - Rosalía Rouco - Bog

The educational code of ConfuciusAmong the many thinkers who throughout the development of humankind have focused their attention on the educational sphere, the Chinese sage, philosopher and thinker Kung-Fu-Tsu (Confucius) deserves special attention. At the dawn of civilization, more than 2,500 years ago, he developed an exemplary educational activity among his disciples, coming from different social and economic statuses. The success of his work was such that it was later his own disciples who wrote and disseminated his doctrines.But this was by no means the great achievement of the brilliant Chinese thinker whose ideas remained alien to the Western world for more than two thousand years. It was the integrality of his doctrines in which he intertwined ethics and morality with education in order to form capable citizens to lead society, which ultimately consecrates him as one of the most relevant figures in history, as well as his extreme defence of human values and the essence of man as good by nature in an era that was observed quite the opposite.The fact of demonstrating his theories in practice, with his disciples, is what distinguishes Confucius from many other thinkers and theoreticians of education, as well as the fact that they themselves were prepared to continue their work and spread their ideas that focused on a broad and integral approach to the cognitive universe, within which ethics, morals, politics, among others, stand out. The fact that he has achieved this is a faithful reflection of the fact that he was able to reach their consciousness and form them with high principles, just as he would like them to be the knights who could direct the humanist society to which he aspired.Confucius was not only a teacher, he aspired to develop himself in the world of politics, which he did not achieve or only half-achieved, given the prevailing socio-political conditions where it was necessary, more than talent and intelligence, to come from privileged castes: from aristocrats, landowners and nobles, or to belong to the narrow family circles of the rulers.Perhaps disappointed and unable to achieve his purposes took refuge in the education of his disciples to collect their ideas and one day carry them out or subsequent generations. as it has largely been.In view of the above and with the support of more than 120 aphorisms of Confucius, the present essay demonstrates the current validity of the educational code or model of the Chinese sage, teacher and philosopher, apart from technological advances in a world dominated by globalization. It is precisely within the framework of globalization that the need to apply these ideas is most palpable in order to avoid the simplistic utilitarianism that tends to characterize current education systems.To educate man integrally for the different facets of life is what Confucius' ideas advocate, in addition to the fact that all human beings have equal access to education, regardless of race, economic status or social rank.To offer due independence to education in the current conditions, when it is totally subordinated to politics and its ups and downs, sometimes chaotic and disordered, is an objective or dream that for many may seem an unrealizable utopia, but which nevertheless constitutes a need for the development of today's society, a problem that, if not resolved in time, could bring with it greater evils, of unpredictable magnitudes, that could even endanger the very existence of the human species in the conditions of overexploitation of the planet, our only place of life in the Universe, our only place of life in the Universe, which could endanger even the very existence of the human species in the conditions of overexploitation of the planet.