Showing posts with label proverbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proverbs. Show all posts

Friday, February 1

Lost opportunities

Education is the most certain route to opportunity, freedom and prosperity. Not sports. Not entertainment. Not militancy or brutality. Parents - both mothers and fathers - are wise to relay such advice to their children from the very beginning, as suggested by two Chinese proverbs.

  • If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.

  • If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.

  • The families who deliberately embrace  ignorance, belligerent about reinforcing it among generations, try to persuade others to their cause. They don't want to be alone, and the tactic is one of the few means left for them in achieving some semblance of superiority.