(education) A teaching philosophy stating that students must achieve a level of mastery in each topic (e.g. 90% in a test) before moving on to further topics.
Chinese ritual mastery traditions, also referred to as ritual teachings (sometimes rendered as "Faism"), Folk Taoism, or Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large group of Chinese orders of ritual officers who operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside the institutions of official Taoism.