Besides receiving rigorous home schooling, Kung met scholars from the north and south who frequently passed through when he was living in the wartime capital of Chongqing, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
孔德成除了接受嚴格的家塾教育，抗戰時期寄居戰時陪都重慶，與絡繹來往的南北學者接觸。