1) Learning (hsueh) according to Confucius can be found in 9:18: The Master said, "The course of learning may be compared to what may happen in raising a mound. If there want but one basket of earth to complete the work, and I stop, the stopping is my own work. It may be compared to throwing down t...

The day after the American plane bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, our core teacher took an entire period telling us how bad the United States was, and how we should never bow down to them. Every student in my class including myself was furious. One year after, the tragedy was written in our...