He strongly approved of the goals of the traditional system of producing gentlemen-scholars through the "six arts" (rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and math), and felt the educational principles behind the Confucian ideal of the "virtuous man" and that of the British "gentleman" were completely similar.
他認為中國古代教育方法禮樂射御書數「六藝」，是「一個在教育上取得顯著成就的時期」，而儒家的「君子」和英國的「紳士」教育，更是完全相同。