子曰：“弟子入则孝，出则悌，谨而信，泛爱众，而亲仁。行有余力，则以学文。”
As a little background, young students usually has two typical status, staying home with their father, or studying in school following teachers.
So in this chapter, the Confucius said, when student stay home, should follow the words from their father and have good son-father relationship; when student go to school, they should respect teacher and follow teacher's words. Also, the Confucius believes that, students should always watch their behaviors and develop outstanding personalities, such as always be careful what words comes from mouth and keep them, love people, and be close to the people who has the same outstanding personalities. All of those behaviors comes to the priority of self-growing. When students still has extra time, they can take classes and get more educated and knowledge.
What we can see from this chapter, the Confucius believes that, having a good personality is more important than being well educated.
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