Fan Zhongyan proposes Song educational reforms
1036
The Confucian official Fan Zhongyan, exiled to a provincial post for criticizing the court, composed a memorial arguing that the empire's strength depended on founding public schools in every prefecture. His vision of government by educated moral men would animate Chinese political philosophy for centuries and inspire the later New Policies reforms that transformed Song governance.
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Also in 1036 (3 other events on record)
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.