唐宪宗元和八年(八一三年)柳宗元有《答韦中立论师道书》,此书信起于韦中立,希望以柳宗元为师,讨论何以为文章之事。柳宗元在这封书信中,就讨论何以为文的问题做了答复,对拜他为师的问题做了否定。其云:孟子称:人之患在好为人师。由魏晋氏以下,人益不事师,今之世不闻有师,有辄哗笑之,以为狂人。独韩愈奋不顾流俗,犯笑侮,收召后学,作《师说》,因抗颜而为师。 Tang Xianzong Yuan and eight years (August 13) Liu Zongyuan has “A Wei Zhongli on Daozhu”, this letter from Wei Zhongli, hoping to Liu Zongyuan as a teacher to discuss why the article matter. In this letter, Liu Zongyuan answered his reply on the question of why the article was written and rejected the issue of worshiping him as a teacher. The cloud: Mencius said: people suffer from good teacher. From the Wei and Jin’s following, human affairs is not a teacher, this world does not smell a teacher, there is noisy smile, that madman. Independence of the more fierce regardless of vulgar, guilty of insult, acceptance after school, as “teacher said,” because of anti-Yan and teacher.