The challenges of modern korean education was the realization of the personality or the whole-person education. Since the liberation, the teaching by rote has significantly contributed to economic development and to open an era of high-tech country, b...
The challenges of modern korean education was the realization of the personality or the whole-person education. Since the liberation, the teaching by rote has significantly contributed to economic development and to open an era of high-tech country, but it had embraced the many side effects and challenges. This paper aims to recognize the need for personality education through the understanding of the personality of Confucianism in conscious awareness of these issues and to examine the possibility of combining the personality to educational grafting. The understanding the personality shown in The Analects of Confucius was described as the In (仁virtuous). It had the means of whole-person to understand the personality of Confucius. The virtuous person (仁人) in the The Analects of Confucius was Junzi, and Junzi was the goal of confucian education. Therefore, understanding the personality of The Analects of Confucius was the cultivation of harmonious personality and the formation of a balanced personality. In addition, the understanding personality of Xun Zi was defined as basic instinct or biological needs, including the animals. Xun Zi divided the Sung (性nature) and Wii (僞) to identify and the Sung was spontaneously obtained since it was born, and the Wii were acquired by endeavor, such as manners. Xun Zi had seen the Sung as evil such as the sensual desires, instinctive desire, but through the WhaSungGiWii (化性起僞), it opened up the possibility of the Sunwha(善化) and the way of saint. Also the heart was the king of shape and the owner of Shinmyung (神明), as Cheongwan (天官) governing the senses (五官), so that it strongly emphasized the independence and subjectivity of mind. In addition, the Neo-Confucianism interpreted the understanding the personality of the advanced Confucianism holistically so that it attempted a precise analysis of the mentality. Sim (心), Sung (性), Jeong (情), and Ui (意) were divided and also summed, and through the LeeGii (理 氣), it was to explain the structure and function of the human mentality. The understanding the personality of Confucianism show different looks as a historical study, but than the core of understanding the personality of Confucianism was harmonious personality, balanced personality. Modern korean education is encouraging the training of specialty technologies ``one anything will make a sucess``, but it will be facing a crisis in producing the handicap and personality education. Internal elements of the personality, that is, are intelligence, moral character, emotion, desire, determination, etc. all need to recognize that the human element required for completion, and it will have a healthy personality through their harmony and balance function and capable of producing Junzi. It``s the political goal of this era and the ideal of education to be physically and mentally healthy citizens and to produce harmonious personality leaders.