关键词: 孟子, 教育思想, 精义, 启示

Abstract: As a gem of Chinese traditional culture, Mencius educational thought includes prime ideas as follows: the function of education is to cultivate the benevolence and morality of a human, and to restore the goodinnature of a human; the value of education lies in its ability to make a human different from a beast, to make the worthy different from the unworthy, to normalize the social feudal order of seniority in human relationships, and to get the inclination of the hearts of the people; teachers should pay attention to teaching methods, such as exemplary teaching, teaching students with virtues and in accordance with their aptitude; students should pay attention to learning methods, such as engaging in selfexamination, combining learning and thinking, uniting knowledge and behavior, and digesting all they have learned.

Key words: Mencius, educational thought, profundity, enlightenment