---孔子（公元前551年9月28日―公元前479年4月11日）
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ---Confucius（551-479 BC）
“我们的教育方针，应该使受教育者在德育、智育、体育几方面都得到发展，成为有社会主义觉悟的有文化的劳动者。”
---毛泽东(1893-1976)
Our guideline of education is to educate students to develop in morality, intelligence and physical education, thus to forge them to be enlightened and cultivated socialist builders.
---Mao Tse Tung(1893-1976)
孔子说，“聪明人不会迷惑，有仁德的人不会忧愁，勇敢的人不会畏惧。”聪明的人任何时候都有自知之明，都会审时度势。他们会藏锋芒，知进退。有仁德的人都是品德高尚的人，他们心胸开阔，乐于给困苦之人施以慷慨的援手。他善解人意，为人正直。勇敢的人敢于直面不平，挑战邪恶势力，无私无畏。孔子的这句名言一直被世界精英视为诠释教育本质的圭臬。他们从中引申出“教育产生自信，自信产生希望，希望孕育和平。”在2014年“亚信峰会（亚洲相互协作与信任措施会议(简称亚信会议）”上，联合国秘书长潘基文曾说，“互信的建立是和平和安全的压舱石。伟大的中国哲学家孔子会同意这个观点。因为他相信‘教育产生自信，自信产生希望，希望孕育和平。’”作为教育的普世价值，自信、希望和和平是人类的基本诉求，繁荣和可持续发展才是教育的终极目标。
毛泽东主席曾经先见之明地论述，“现在这种教育制度，我很怀疑。从小学到大学，一共十六七年，二十多年看不见稻、粱、菽、麦、黍、稷，看不见工人怎样做工，看不见农民怎样种田，看不见商品是怎样交换的，身体也搞坏了，真是害死人。”这种教育的模式还在延续。教育的力量应该来自培养学生学习能力、交际能力、动手能力、创新能力和批判性思维。
约翰·K·肯尼迪说，“社会的进步没有教育的进步来得快速，人类的思想是最重要的资源。” 教育激活人类的思想，人类的思想积极地改变社会。这就是教育的力量。
Confucius once said, “An intelligent man will never be bewildered, a moral man will never be worried and a brave man will never be frightened.” An intelligent man knows himself well and judges the hour and size up the situation. He knows how to hide his spearhead and when to go forward and backwards. A moral man is of great virtue, broadminded and helps the needy generously. He is considerate and straightforward. A brave man dares to voice for unfairness and challenges the evil deeds audaciously. The quotation of Confucius has been regarding as a universal criterion to paraphrase education by the international elites. They derive the following annotation, “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”Secretary General Ban Ki-moon once said on the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), “…mutual trust and confidence building are cornerstones of peace and security. The great Chinese philosopher Confucius would recognize this since he believed that Education breeds confidence, confidence breeds hope, hope breeds peace.”As the universal value of education, confidence, hope and peace are generated basically from it. Eventually, prosperity and sustainable development are ultimate aims of education.
毛主席回韶山
Chairman Mao Tse-tung once said with great foresight, “I am quite doubtful about present education system. From primary school to college, the students cannot distinguish rice, sorghum, legumes, wheat, millet and cereals during the sixteen to seventeen years; During more than twenty years, they cannot experience factory work and farm work; they also cannot witness trades and deals. They are suffering physical tortures to the end. ” This education system survives to present day. Education power is to train students to obtain abilities in study, communication, experience, innovation and critical thinking.
John·K·Kennedy said, ”Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education, The human mind is our fundamental resource.“Education is to activate human mind, while human mind is to change society actively, which is called education power.
