A young boy who loved studying history A master teacher known as Kong Fuzi A Chinese philosopher who explained how to treat others well and how to live a good life Learn more about China’s most famous teacher and philosopher, whose ideas are still influential today. Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he’d become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, a ...