The humanist education is the education which is instructed by spirit and ideal of humanism, the goal of humanist education is to cultivate everyone who can have outstanding and sane personality, as well as in a variety of field (politics in particular). This study is based on LunYu and adopts the view of "Humanism" to observe and discuss that inheritance and innovation of Confucius' thought characteristics. Strictly speaking, Confucius had not certainly proposed the brand-new thought category beyond the noble education of Western Zhou Dynasty, however, he had made new explanations to some old categories of aristocratic learning of Western Zhou Dynasty. For example, Confucius turned the gentleman into the person of noble character and integrity, he emphasized that every all could become gentleman, he offered great affirmations to potentail of keeping forging ahead. Although Confucius valued superiority of inferiority, Confucius paid much attention to sharing the learning resources, therefore Confucius advocated that a teacher who teaches all comers without discrimination. Confucius valued learning, he considered that one should to be an officer after gets achievements from study, but one should to be an officer until it is the traditional society .Furthermore, Confucius emphasized ritual and music, he also advocated a ideal of talented person, everyone cam be multi-faceted, which is a inevitable result if everyone is able to develop his potential. To sum up, Confucius gained new insights through restudying old material, he could respond the change of the tomes, and got a set of new humanist education, This ideal of education does not equal pale ink, which is worth making a self-examination and learning for our education today.