Ma Yifu set up the Fuxing Academy, and even advocated not giving degrees. He asked: Has anyone heard of the scholars from the Song onwards who first established academies issuing degrees or certificates to their acolytes?
馬一浮辦復性書院，還主張學生不應該為學位讀書，而且追問：你看過程朱陸王給弟子發學位文憑嗎？