Academy Answers | What is education really for?
What is education really for? In 1180, Zhu Xi wrote down his answer at Bailudong Academy in east China's Jiangxi Province. Not for exams. Not for a job. Education, he thought, is about how to be a good person. His words in the Bailudong Academy Directives spread across East Asia and are still upheld as mottos in some schools in South Korea and Japan today.
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