春风化雨。良好的熏陶和教育。
One’s mantle（衣钵）falls on somebody.
当今真正的大学就是一批藏书。
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
对孩子的一分表扬抵得上十二分批评。
For a child an ounce of praise is worth a pound of scolding（叱责）.
父母是孩子的榜样。
As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns.
过多母爱，孩子被宠坏。
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
教养开始于教育，完成于社交。
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
教育的目的在于培养品德。
Education has for its object the formation of character.
教育显然有两种：一种是教人怎样谋生，另一种是教人怎样活着。
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于一块大理石。
What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
教育重于天赋。
Nurture is above / passes nature.
老师对学生最大的帮助是学会自学。
That teacher helps his pupils most who most helps them to help themselves.
没受过教育强于被教唆。
Better untaught than ill taught.
身教胜于言传。
A good example is the best sermon.
Example is better than precept.
Example is more efficacious than precept.
One example is more valuable than twenty precepts in books.
Practice is better than precept.
The way by examples is short, by precepts（戒律）long.
身教胜于言传。蚂蚁不说话，但最善于说教。
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
十年树木，百年树人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
树不修不成材，人不教不成器。
There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well
天性胜过培养。
Nature passes nurture.
学而不厌，诲人不倦。
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
修树要趁早，育人要趁小。
A child’s back must be bent while it is young.
A tree must be bent while it is young.
A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
Bend the willow while it is young.
The tree must be bent while it is young.
Best to bend while it’s a twig（嫩枝）.
Thraw（盘绕）the wand（柳树嫩枝）while it is green.
Train a tree when it is young.
朽木不可雕。
Black takes no color.
Black will take no other hue.
Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft（箭杆）.
One can not make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Pigs might fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
There is a small choice in rotten apples.
Unable to fly, in vain the bird flaps（拍打）his wings.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow（母猪）’s ear.
You cannot make a horn of a pig’s tail.
养不教，父之过。
A child is better unburned than untaught.
以身作则。
Teach others by your example.
因人而异。有什么牛肉熬什么汤。
Such beef, such broth.
玉不琢，不成器。
An uncut gem（宝石）does not sparkle（闪光）.
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
The finest diamond must be cut.
The man who has not been fluffed is not educated.
Unpolished pearls never shine.
早熟早烂，早慧早衰。
Soon ripe, soon rotten, soon wise, soon foolish.
知道怎样启发，是教学的伟大艺术。
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
专心读书的孩子们，不久都能成大器。
Good boys who to their books apply, will all great men by and by.
资历是必不可少的。
Nothing but has qualification of some kind.
