Abstract: In the academic inheritance of Warring States period, there were two styles: respecting teachers and respecting morality. The former required the strict following of teachers' theories and there should be no deviation. While the latter stressed the priority of morality over teachers. When people followed morality, they need not to take teachers into consideration. The two academic propositions with different styles existed simultaneously. However, in history, such two propositions were not completely different, but most probably interwoven. This fully showed the complexity of academic thoughts in Warring States period. Moreover, it is worth of our attention in the study of early stage of education history.