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.

1. Mr. Taylor | @teamHISTORY | Unit 3 – part 2

2. Scholar
Confucius
wants to
restore order,
harmony,
good
government

3.  Stresses
developing
good
relationships,
including
family

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