On Conversational Art of Confucius' Inspiring Teaching in Analects

Inspiration and conversation are constantly mentioned and employed in the present curricular innovation. In spite of that, there exists some deviation of understanding. The inspiring teaching interprets the interrelation between teaching and learning with trilogy functioning on students' thinking. Its features involve pertinence of context, exploring initiative, gameplaying aesthetic and ethic. From Analects, we find that the conversational art includes morality of conversational purposes, universality of conversational basis, rheological properties of conversational process, rhetoric of conversational methods, and interestingness of conversational effect.