每日工夫：先考德，次背书、诵书，次习礼或作课仿，次复诵书、讲书、次歌诗。凡习礼歌诗之类，皆所以常存童子之心，使其乐习不倦，而无瑕及于邪僻。教者如此，则知所施矣。虽然，此其大略也。神而明之，则存乎其人。
每日功夫：先考察德行，其次背书诵书，其次习礼或做课仿，其次再诵书讲书，最后歌诗。凡习礼歌诗之类，都是用来常存童子之心，使他乐于学习不觉疲倦，而无暇顾及邪僻。教的人明白了这些，就知道怎样施教了。虽然如此，这只是个大概；神而明之，则存乎其人。
The daily program: first, examination of conduct; then reciting and reading from memory; then ritual practice or copybook work; then further reading and expounding; last, singing the poems. Ritual and song are to keep the child's heart ever alive, glad in study and untiring, with no leisure for the crooked. A teacher who grasps this knows what to apply. Yet this is but the outline; to work it with spirit and insight lies with the man himself.