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Research has shown that those who fail to achieve an education usually devolve into a life of crime and immorality. Hsun Tzu was an ancient chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. A strong believer in education, Hsun Tzu uses metaphors and natural images to make his argument that through rigorous training and study man can overcome his inherent evil and become a gentlemen. An example of his beliefs is in his writing entitled “Encouraging Learning”. Here are some examples from the text, itself.
An example of a metaphor used by Hsun Tzu is a piece of wood. The piece of wood as straight as a plumb line may be bent into a circle as round as a compass. Once this has happened it may never be straighten again as the bending process has made it that way; this in such to the education of a young man. Once the man is educated he cannot be “uneducated” and thus has achieved knowledge. Another metaphor would be a piece of metal. If metal is placed against the grindstone it can be sharpen, just as if the gentlemen studies wisely and each day examines himself, his wisdom will become clear and his conduct will be without fault.
An example of natural images would be ice and water. When froozen water becomes ice and thus ice is more frozen than water. The same logic can apply to a gentlemen and child. The child, with an education can grow to be a gentlemen and thus the gentlemen is more knowledgeable than the child just as the ice is cooler than the water. One other comparison can be made to a crab. A crab has six legs and two pincers, but unless they can find an empty hole dug by a snake or a water serpent, they have no place to lodge just as if the human doesn’t have the proper education, they tend to not be able to find a place of their own in the world and usually devolve into a “lesser quality” of life in order to try and achieve what they want.
As a piece of wood can be bent, a piece of metal can be sharpen, water becomes ice, and a crab finds its place, a human with an education can be successful, knowledgeable, and live a proper life. Through his uses of metaphors and natural images such as the ones above, Hsun Tzu is able to get his point across that through rigorous training and study man can overcome his inherent evil to become a lively and successful gentlemen. The studies have shown that without such an education must humans have no direction in life and nowhere to go and thus are usually forced…by their own will…to devolve into crime and immorality. However, they can avoid this through a proper education and support.