Editing Great Learning (section)

==Principal teachings==
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*Achieving a state of "rest in the highest excellence" and refining one's moral self to "illustrious virtue" that will be an example for all people of the realm.
*The "point of rest being known", the "goal of action can be determined", and "deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end." <blockquote>大學之道，在明明德，在親民，在止於至善。知止而后有定，定而后能靜，靜而后能安，安而后能慮，慮而后能得。物有本末，事有終始，知所先後，則近道矣。 What the Great Learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end. Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.</blockquote>
*Ample rest and reflection such that one achieves peace of mind. When one is calm and reflected, the Way will be revealed to them.
*Setting priorities and knowing what is important is essential in one's quest for moral refinement, for it allows one to focus on that which is of the greatest importance and that which is in line with the Way as outlined in Confucian teachings.
*One must bring his affairs and relationships into order and harmony. If one hopes to attain order in the state, he must first bring his own family and personal life into order through self-cultivation and the expansion of one's knowledge and the "investigation of things."
*Each and every man<!--not person; see talk--> is capable of learning and self-cultivation regardless of social, economic or political status. This, in turn, means that success in learning is the result of the effort of the individual as opposed to an inability to learn.
*One must treat education as an intricate and interrelated system where one must strive for balance. [[Holistic education|No one aspect of learning is isolated]] from the other and failure to cultivate a single aspect of one's learning will lead to the failure of learning as a whole.