Who was Confucius?
Confucius was an ancient Chinese teacher, philosopher, and political theorist. Born into a poor family, he managed stables and worked as a bookkeeper while educating himself. Mastery of the six arts-ritual, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and arithmetic-and familiarity with history and poetry enabled him to begin a brilliant teaching career in his thirties. Confucius saw education as a process of constant self-improvement and held that its primary function was the training of noblemen (junzi). He saw public service as the natural consequence of education and sought to revitalize Chinese social institutions, including the family, school, community, state, and kingdom. Focus 7: Adaptation “One learns to itch where one can scratch.” – Ernest Bramah We are animals of routine, but this static environment we believe exists in our daily lives is only a figment of our wishful imagination. Life is fluid and ever-changing. Nothing stays the same and the art of a warrior is someone wh
