Word: confucius
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...cornerstone of the system, though, is the influence of Confucius, the 6th century B.C. Chinese philosopher, who taught that success in academic life is the measure of an individual and reflects the honoring of mutual moral obligations. Exalting the role of the teacher, he believed that learning should be unceasing and tested with frequent examinations. Japan today lives up to that academic ideal...
...good guy," the bearded, karate-flick regular, Chuck Norris, 40. But after the final editing he was chopped down by Norris. So he sued to protect his reputation as a man "possessed of boundless courage, and physically and spiritually indomitable." Does he not know the teaching of Confucius: "He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good...
...Chang, a Tokyo correspondent, takes the strictures against salt with the proverbial grain. Salt, he says, "is one of the loveliest things ever discovered by humanity." Obviously a man of moderation, he cites Confucius as suggesting that too little salt is as bad as too much. Says Chang, who likes to salt his tempura: "In the use of salt there is nothing wrong as long as intelligence is exercised." Medicine Writer Claudia Wallis, who wrote the story, first became familiar with the formula and properties of sodium chloride in Chemistry 15 when she was a pre-med freshman at Yale...
...report, so lengthy that it took two days to deliver, revealed that during the next five years China will engage in a major effort to streamline what he called the country's "bloated, overlapping, administrative structure." The monumentally inefficient bureaucracy, which can trace its beginnings to Confucius' time, has survived wars, political upheaval and even the Cultural Revolution. Today, it is estimated that China has as many as 20 million civil servants...
...India to secure new sup plies of iron for Darius and then to far-off Cathay (China), where he is usually treated as a slave instead of an ambassador. His peripatetic existence throws him constantly into the presence of the powerful and influential. He meets, among others, Buddha, Confucius, an ar ray of Indian mystics and holy men, Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles. He knows people who knew Pythagoras and Aeschylus. During his last years in Athens, Cyrus hires a young mason to repair a wall. His name is Socrates...