The father of Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Xi, famously believed that using printed texts made students lazy and caused them to undervalue knowledge, a concern ironically parallel to how the internet was discussed in the early 2000s

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“the father of neoc Confucianism Jui famously believed that using printed texts made students lazy and caused them to undervalue knowledge”

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The Daoist Scriptures Are Huge— ReligionForBreakfast
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