In the article ‘’Hsun Tzu Encouraging Learning’’, Hsun Tzu believes that humans are born within the evil human being, which only rigorous training and studying could produce virtue. He said that ‘’educating a child to the process of straightening a piece of wood against a board or sharpening a piece of metal with a stone.’’(5) Compared to other Chinese philosophers, Hsun Tzu’s ideal of the human being rules are easy to follow, and it is validate for education in today’s world. He also believes that education can cancel out the human defects and change people’s personalities. He mentions that people born without any intelligence, yet they can learn and make use of things.(7) However, he thinks that a gentleman who can order himself and respond to people, he will know what is good for the communities, and what deserves to call beautiful. The educational systems in today’s world are using examination pressure to push the children to study hard; to equivalent, Hsun Tzu’s ideas are valid for the education in today’s world, and also the social norm and the shift in the societies. Today education is using test to show who the smartest student; thus, pushing children to keep learning. It can be valid to Husn Tzu’s idea that people should keep learning to…show more content… Hsun Tzu said ‘’a gentleman will take care in selecting the community he intends to live in, and will choose men of breeding foe his companions. In this way he wards off evil and meanness, and draws close to fairness and right.’’ (7) This idea is also relevant to today’s education world which people use their knowledge to shift in society. There are many social problems nowadays, such as, rural to urban, immigration increased, the disparity between rich and poor, women are in workforce, media have exploded as major social influence… it is important for the intellectual to solve the problems and to change the