折疑論 5.6

5.6

'The teachings have the shallow and the deep. Although they cannot be entirely identical, there are also words that can be seen as agreeing. Confucius said: "To those of medium capacity and above, one may speak of higher things; to those below medium capacity, one may not speak of higher things." (Yu is pronounced in the falling tone. In the Analects, yu means to tell. This means that when teaching people, one should instruct according to their higher or lower level; then one's words will easily enter, without the fault of skipping over grades.)