Sometimes I think about how Confucian scholars prior to the Republican period in China spend their whole lives studying Confucianism and see it as a waste of time because with the advantage of hindsight we can look back and see how subjective and nonsensical Confucianism is. But at the same time, don't people in our own society spend their whole adult lives studying and then practicing our society's law (our own moral codes), which is arguably equally subjective? There's a parallel between the two cases, and in both instances, you can't really say that the education is useless, because people don't study these things for nothing, but in order to get a job. People studied Confucianism back then not necessarily because it was correct but in order to get a job as a scholar-official, just as people study civil law nowadays to work as a lawyer.