Ideal Womanhood
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It would seem the Confucian Ideology would be easier to introduce and teach to my students. Confucian Ideology consists of three standards that need to be mastered to attain womanhood, which are virtue, talent, and beauty. Virtue as explained in the story would be loyalty to others in this case your children if you are a woman. Talent would be to master logical reasoning while beauty is seeking the importance of inner wisdom rather than physical appearance. These standards seem plausible with both genders since all standards would produce better human beings. Once standard definitions are learned and character examples are analyzed, students could internalize for personal growth.


