When Gao Gong pushed the door in, Gao Pingshi had already stood up and bowed politely: "Third Uncle."
"Well, what are you reading?" Gao Gong said. He sat down on the main seat and waved his hand: "Sit down and talk."
Gao Pingshi then sat down and replied: "I am reading "The Supplement to the Explanations of the University" by Qiu Wenzhuang Gong."
Gao Gong frowned slightly and said: "I know you can already recite "The Great Learning", but now you should still focus on the "Zhangju" (Note: referring to Zhu Xi's "The Great Learning Chapters"), the other "Yanyi", "Yanyi" "Yi Bu", it won't be too late to read it carefully in the future."
Gao Pragmatic nodded respectfully, his tone was very honest, but his words were quite conceited: "Today I was originally scheduled to recite Chapters 6 and 72 of the right biography of "Zhang Ju", but these two chapters are quite short, so I also recited Chapter 8 as well. After that, my nephew saw that he still had some free time and nothing to do, so he read "Yan Yi Supplement" again. "
"Oh?" Gao Gong looked delighted, but then he said again: "Then I will test you on a few sentences. I will start and you will memorize the next sentence."
Gao Pragmatic showed no fear: "Please Third Uncle, please start."
"The so-called self-cultivation lies in correcting one's mind..."
Gao Pragmatic immediately responded: "If you are angry, you cannot be righteous; if you are fearful, you cannot be righteous; if you are happy, you cannot be righteous; if you are worried, you cannot be righteous."
Gao Gong asked again: "What does Cheng Zi mean?"
Gao pragmatically replied: "Chengzi said: The body that exists in the body is regarded as the mind."
"What's Zhu Xi's explanation?"
Gao pragmatically replied: "Anger, not a fan of rebellion. Angriness, an edict's value rebellion. Good, joy, and sound. Anger, anger. These four are all used by the heart, and people cannot live without them. However, If you have it but cannot detect it, you will be tempted to overtake it, and the purpose of its use may not be correct. If your mind is absent, you will not see it, hear it but not hear it, eat it without knowing its taste. If your mind is not there, you will not be able to check your body. , so a gentleman must notice this and respect it, and keep it straight. Then this mind will always exist and the body will be cultivated. This is called cultivating the body by correcting the mind."
The education methods in later generations of China were heavily influenced by Western education methods, and were basically based on encouraging education. That is, whenever a child performs a little better, they will be fully praised and encouraged, because this will help the child build self-confidence. Children who grow up under this kind of education are likely to be optimistic, confident and high-spirited in the future.
However, the education methods of ancient Chinese dynasties were basically the opposite. What they insisted on was mainly frustration-based education, which was often manifested in artificially raising the standards of educational requirements, so that educated children often failed to meet the requirements of their teachers. Then punish and supervise vigorously. In this way, children can maintain a humble and prudent attitude, avoid falling into a position of pride and complacency, constantly reflect on themselves, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and at the same time develop a perseverance due to repeated "setbacks" , the quality of facing difficulties.
These are the advantages of both education methods, but they also have their disadvantages. For example, encouraging education can easily make children self-centered and ignore the feelings of others, making them arrogant and arrogant. Although they are usually confident, once they encounter setbacks, they are prone to self-doubt, self-destruction, and even collapse; while frustration-oriented education Although children under education are usually modest and tough, they sometimes seem to lack responsibility and are too mellow. Simply put, they lack leadership and dare not be the first.
Of course, this refers to general performance and does not prevent the occurrence of individual counterexamples.
Later generations, because of the ignorance and backwardness of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese people experienced a painful lesson. Then the west wind became more and more popular, and some people even proposed comprehensive westernization. Although it was never implemented in the end, it has to be said that Western thinking was still injected on a large scale, making China's traditional education model almost completely replaced by Western education models and ideas.
But Gao Gong obviously does not have any Western educational thinking. What he practices is still the traditional Chinese style frustration education. Therefore, when he saw Gao's pragmatic response, although he was actually quite pleased in his heart, he didn't show it at all on his face. He just nodded lightly and said, "You must have put some thought into it." Then he immediately changed the subject: "Do you know what I am doing today? Why did you come back so early?"
Gao Pingshi had a sudden thought and thought to himself: I don't seem to have done anything bad, right?
Then he rolled his eyes and asked tentatively: "Could it be that the elders have some disputes about certain things?"
"Hmph, with Zhao Dazhou here, how can the cabinet be free from controversy?" A trace of disgust appeared on the high-arched face, and he waved his hand, as if to drive away a non-existent fly: "It's not that the cabinet is not in harmony - if the cabinet is not in harmony "Xie, I won't let it go and make my appointment in advance... I'm here because the Holy One called me over today and told me about something."
Gao Gong looked at Gao pragmatism with bright eyes, and tapped the table with his left index finger twice: "Your Majesty is asking for my opinion on a matter related to you."
Gao Jingshi's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly complained: Could it be that Emperor Longqing really said everything to Gao Gongzhi? Could it be that Boss Long Qing had simply decided on the idea he came up with that day and was going to ask Gao Gong if he objected, and would implement it if he didn't? But...if you put it into practice, just put it into practice, don't sell me out! I'm only eight years old now. If word gets out about this, will I still be around in the future? Are the Manchu officials not allowed to treat me as the enemy who killed my father?
But Gao Gong stared at him like this, how dare he not respond? He had no choice but to make a grimace and said, "Uncle San, I...I don't know what's going on."
Look at that pitiful appearance, it's not much worse than shouting "The common people are wronged".
Gao Gong frowned: "Of course you don't know..." He withdrew his hand from knocking on the table, touched his big beard, raised his head slightly, put his eyes on the beam, thinking, and seemed to be saying to Gao Pangshi, It seemed as if he was just talking to himself: "The Holy One praised you a lot, and then said that the prince hopes that you can enter the palace..."
Gao Jingshi was shocked and jumped up, unable to speak clearly: "Into...into the palace?"
Gao Gong was startled by his sudden move, then came to his senses and slapped the table hard: "What are you making all this fuss about? How unbecoming are you jumping up and down! Sit tight!" But as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly understood. He came over, couldn't help but laugh, pointed at Gao Pingshi and slapped him in the sky, and said happily: "You kid, where did you think you were? It's not the one who 'entered the palace'!"
It was related to the safety of the little brother, and this matter could not be ignored, so Gao Pragmatic was still nervous and asked doubtfully: "There are many ways to enter the palace?"
Gao Gong was slightly stunned and said: "Who dares to let the descendants of my Gao family do the unethical act of betraying our ancestors!" He waved his hands in annoyance, stopped playing riddles, and said bluntly: "The prince means that he wants to You go to the palace and study with him. However, although it has happened in ancient times for the sons of important ministers to serve as the prince's study companions, there is no precedent in our dynasty. Your Majesty is worried about the comments from the outer court, so he came to ask me first what I think."
Gao pragmatic was so surprised that he could stuff an egg into his mouth, and he didn't say anything for a long time.
Gao Gong suddenly stared at him intently: "You shouldn't have mentioned it to the prince yourself, right?"
