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[63] Confucian Academy

The Confucian Academy is today’s middle school and high school. This school was built to find talented students by gathering students who completed basic learning in village schools and taught by erudite scholars. The representative Confucian Academy of Joseon Dynasty is Dosanseowon Confucian Academy built by pupils of Toegye Yi Hwang.

The most important space in the Confucian Academy is the shrine holding ancestral rites with the tablets of sages. Each Confucian Academy enshrined different teachers. Accordingly, the direction of learning was different as well. There is also an assembly hall where teachers gathered students for lecture. There is also a woodblock storage room that makes books and storage that stores books. The Confucian scholars who studied in the Confucian Academy had to live in Confucian Academy. Thus, there is also a library for servants who took care of the Confucian students. They are the well-known statesman of Mid-Joseon. Oseong Yi Hang Bok and Haneum Yi DeokHyeong, well-known as Oseong and Haneum, are known to have built friendship and learning while studying in the Confucian Academy. Feel how the Confucian students at the Confucian Academy developed scholar mindset while learning.