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HumanGreatness.

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Confuciussays,“Outofthreemen,theremustbeonethatcanteachme.”Sopupilsarenot

necessarilyinferiortotheirteachers,norteachersbetterthantheirpupils.Somelearnthetruth

earlierthanothers,andsomehavespecialskills—thatisall.”

孔子曾经说过“三人行，必有我师焉。”因此学生并不一定就低老师一等，老师也不见得就

一定比学生优秀。只不过有的人比别人更早地明白真理，有的人拥有特殊技能罢了。

Asimilarideaisexpressedbythefollowingwell-knownpassagequotedfromXueji(The

SubjectofEducation),achapteroftheancientbookLiji(TheBookofRites):在《学记》和《礼

记》的著名段落中我们也能找到类似的思想。“食美与否，不吃不知其味也；理善与否，不

学不知其真也”“Howevernicethefoodmaybe,ifonedoesnoteatit,hedoesnotknowitstaste.

howeverperfectthedoctrinemaybe,ifonedoesnotlearnit,hedoesnotknowitsvalue.因此，其

学者知其不足，其教授者只其难也。Therefore,whenhelearns,oneknowshisowndeficiencies.

whenheteaches,oneknowswherethedifficultylies.知不足，则学者省自身；知其难，则教授

者得进取。Afterheknowshisdeficiencies,oneisabletoexaminehimself.afterheknowswhere

thedifficultylies,oneisabletoimprovehimself.Hence,„teachingandlearninghelpeachother.‟

asitissaidinYueMing,„Teachingisthehalfoflearning.‟”TheabovequotefromLiji,whichlays

emphasisonself-examinationandself-improvement,islessthoroughgoingthanwhatHanYusays

abouteducation.Nevertheless,itsremarkssuchasasheteachesoneknowswherethe

difficultylies,”“Teachingbenefitsteachersaswellaspupils”and“Teachingisthehalfof

learning”(aquotationmeaningteachingandlearningareoppositeandcomplementarytoeach

other)allremainirrefutabletothisday.

Thenewrelationshipbetweenteacherandpupilshouldbethatof,inthewordsofHan

Yu,“not(being)ashamedtolearnfromeachother.”Thatiswithinthemind.Itaffectsthesoul

directly.butitcanaffect