Summary Of Hsun Tzu Encouraging Learning

In Hsun Tzu’s “Encouraging Learning”, Tzu constantly regarded how education makes one complete. His knowledge on how to achieve completeness is through hard work with good morals. “Learning should never cease” (Tzu 544) is a quote Tzu used constantly and believed it is something people should live by.
Tzu believes that there are three stages of learning that people should live by. The first stage is the scholar. The first stage is “the man of breeding” someone who is just beginning to learn, someone who is just a student starting out in the world of learning. The first stage exposes the person to education to fill in the cracks in the mind that have not been filled yet, to slowly bring wholeness into the person and help them fulfill that completeness. Through the first stage of learning the door to becoming a
The gentleman is one with knowledge but is still not the complete man. While the third stage, the sage is "the one who found the right path thought the right thoughts and learned the right lessons". The sage is the complete man, but to be complete does not mean to stop learning.
Learning only ends when life itself ends. In every action a person may even think of doing learning is always involved. Learning is involved in almost every aspect of human life and nature. Learning is what got humankind this far, education is a key factor in life that helps the common man become a sage. Education will always be there to help humankind fill the void of ignorance to become complete.
To be a complete person is what I aim for. To achieve my goal of completeness, I believe education will be there to help me every step of the way. In steps I've taken and steps I have yet to take, learning has been my stepping stone that has slowly been leading me through that direction of completeness. Despite how far I've gone, I still have a long way to go to achieve that