Education in the Mythology of Chinese Gods Repelita Wahyu Oetomo, Usman Pelly, Ichwan Azhari
Universitas Negeri Medan
Abstract
Education is a way to improve intelligence, ethics, personality, and skills that will benefit oneself and society. The ethnic Chinese community as adherents of the Tridharma religion places education in an honorable place in its worship, this can be known from the existence of educational gods and guardian gods of the educated. Kong Tze (Konghucu) is the god of Education who in his life is dedicated to education. The problem that will be answered is what gods are protectors for the world of education and what is the historical and mythological background.
