Publisher's Synopsis
Learn more about Confucius' life, political philosophy and education. As a scholar, he was a diligent learner who became an expert in rituals through observation and study, and a master of the six arts of driving and archery; as a teacher, he had 3,000 disciples, and was a tireless rector; and as a preacher of Confucianism, he lived up to his ideals throughout his life, traveling around the world for 14 years in search of an opportunity to become a civil servant. It is no wonder that the historian Sima Qian praised him: "As the poem says, 'The mountains are high, the sights and the walks are endless. Though I cannot reach it, my heart yearns for it."
