Analects, Books One Through Three

I find that the insight to teaching comes from the fact that Confucius and his students were teachers themselves and thus see gigantic value in teaching and practicing what you preach, which is why passage 3 (book one) deals with deceitful people.

Passages 6, 9, and 10 (book one) all teach people to act a certain way, which immediately reminds me that this is done in the Bible and Greek myths as well, which serves to say that all or most religious or semireligious texts teach and enforce standards of behavior and conducts, usually by the example of the "heroes" of the text.

Confucius makes reference to ritual and keeping traditions, passages 11 and 12(book one) and 3(book two), which means he believes in keeping the ways of the past because they seem best. These ideas could've had great influence to China's isolationism in the nineteenth century.