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Educational Reflection about Getting Old: Focused on Analects of Confucius

The purpose of this study is to examine the meaning of getting old and to reflect the inherent meaning of today’s life and education from the perspective of the Analects of Coufucius. Confucianism has never dealt with old age as a special part of the life time, but has dealt with the lift time as a whole to understand the ideal human character. Has a subject of “getting old” never been discussed in Confucianism? The answer is no. Even though a topic of getting old has not surfaced, it is rather a main topic in the Analects of Coufucius. A course of getting old is just a journey of Saramdaum and learning. An ideal senior based on Analects of Coufucius is a person who shows an example and lives neighbors together in a community. Special values or tasks are not required with age. In the Analects of Coufucius's view of the world, all humans is to realize ‘Gun-ja(君子)’ pursuing Saramdaum regardless of age. Old age is rather more of a better time seeing results of Saramdaum. Confucius discussed the issue of getting old in the nature of human life, not inquired the issue from today’s secular point of view. Discourse of old age in Confucianism is based on the continuation of all of the time and space and integration. An effort to Saramdaum is the only way to naturally build an ideal society that ‘the elderly to relax