Confucius was a scholar who wanted to restore order, harmony, and good government through developing good relationships and family ties. He believed that education could transform people and that his teachings could provide the foundation for a trained civil service and bureaucracy to govern China according to his ethical system of right and wrong, which Chinese social order and government became based on.
4. Thinks education can transform people
Teachings become foundation for
bureaucracy, a trained civil service
Confucianism is an ethical system
of right and wrong, not a religion
Chinese government and social order is
based on Confucianism