Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

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