Doing What Is Right And Avoiding What Is Wrong

I'm starting to get the hang of Confucius. I'm overwhelmed by how much lessons there are. I don’t even know what I should write about. I’m going to start to talk about Confucius. This is a character that caught my attention because he’s very similar to Ishmael. He makes it very clear that he won’t help anyone who is not willing to learn, just as Ishmael did. “the master said: "I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious” From there on he started throwing lesson after lesson, my favorite passage was the following:"Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.This all has to do with virtue, doing what’s right and avoiding what’s wrong. I had to look most of the words up in the dictionary, anyways, in my words, the quote says:Respectfulness becomes an overwhelming and effortful task when isn’t done right. Carefulness becomes shy, when it isn’t done in a correct way. Boldness, if is not done right, becomes disobedient. Straightforwardness can become rude if it isn’t done correctly. All of these values described are good to have. You should be direct respectful careful and stand up for what you like but you should always do it with virtue. The 8th grade sociales teacher told us: “Liberty doesn’t consist on doing what you want, but on doing what is suppose to be done because that’s what you want. (I think it sounds better in Spanish: la libertad no consiste en hacer lo que se me da la gana, sino en hacer lo que hay que hacer, porque se me da la gana) If you just do things because you want to, you’ll become disobedient. If you say what you think straight forward, you may become rude. Everything has to be done with some rules to follow. I deduce from the chapters we read, that the first rule is to do things with virtue.