This paper examines Tung's ideas of Chinese education for the ruler, for the common people, and for government servants. Tung, an important educational theorist and Confucian philosopher in China's history, suggested the imperial examination system which led to employment in the imperial civil service. It is the thesis of this paper that there was considerable philosophical continuity between the Confucian system and the Legalist doctrines of the preceding Ch'in dynasty. Tung accepted and combined the Legalist version of the ruler as being absolute with Confucian educational philosophy to create a basis for the new government. He added the Confucian ideas of culture, ethics, and education. The ruler became the supreme moral as well as secular force in the state. Education, because it was identified with the ruler as its source, became the monopoly of government. The common people were taught to be strictly obedient to the state; the educational principle being to suppress independent thought and action. But it was the education of the bureaucrats who filled the middle and lower levels of the imperial civil service that Tung viewed as most important, since they conducted the government's business. He established an imperial university to educate and select government officials who would be devoted to the ruler. These educational principles are still evident in China. (Author/JK)