..續本文上一頁he womb. 在小孩子生出來了，做父母的一定要給子女做個好榜樣，不要那麼爭啊！吵啊！自私自利、貪、求、打妄語啊！如果你有這樣的行爲，那子女是見到什麼，就會學什麼。譬如大人會講話，小孩子也一點一點就會講話了。他受這種的影響力是很大的。所以做父母的不能說能養子女，不能教子女。你能養子女，那是幫助國家生一個國民了；可是你不能教養子女，這是沒有負起對國家、對社會的關心。你沒把你生出的子女教育好，令他做一個問題兒童，甚至于危害社會國家，這都是做父母的要負的責任。
Parents must set good examples for their children. They should not fight or quarrel so much, be selfish, seek self-advantage, be greedy, or lie! This is important because children will observe and imitate their parents” behaviors. Indeed, children are highly susceptible to their environment. For example, by observing the way adults talk, children learn how to talk bit by bit. Therefore, parents should not say they are only capable of bearing their children, but incapable of educating them. By bringing a child into this world, you are adding a new citizen to your nation. However, if you don”t educate your children well, you won”t be fulfilling your responsibility to your nation and society. In other words, you will be held fully responsible if you fail to educate your children properly and they become problem youths, who may even harm the nation and society. 所以做父母的，要以教育子女爲當務之急，不要把“去賺錢、去搞名搞利”，做爲第一了。應該以教育子女，做爲最要緊的一件事情。你若是把子女教育好了，比你爲他賺多少錢都有價值；因爲他知道怎麼樣做人，怎麼樣愛惜身體了。所以子女在家庭，還沒有入學的這個階段，教育的責任是父母的。
Therefore, as parents, you should make your children”s education as your first priority, instead of focusing mainly on earning money and pursuing fame. You should consider educating your children as your most important task. If you are able to educate your children well, it will be more valuable than earning a lot of money for them. This is because through proper education, your children will learn how to behave as upright inpiduals, and how to cherish their own bodies. Therefore, before children are old enough to attend school, their parents should be responsible for their education during this period of time. 那麼等到他一踏入學校，學校做人師表的，應該要以身作則，影響得學生盡量知道怎麼樣敦品立德，怎麼樣能孝順父母，尊敬長上。一開始的時候，要教他孝道。萬佛聖城的小學，盡量灌輸小學生孝順父母；在家裏要替父母工作，也要順承父母的意思。所以萬佛聖城的小學生回到家裏，他的父母都非常滿意的。
As soon as children start school, teachers should set good examples for their students. Under the teachers” positive influence, the students should learn how to develop upright characters and virtues, and how to show filial reverence toward their parents and respect toward their elders. From the very beginning, teachers should teach their students filial reverence. In the elementary school at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, students are instilled with the concept of filial reverence. They are taught to be obedient to their parents, and to help their parents when they go home. Therefore, their parents are very pleased with their behavior at home. 老師以“得天下英才而教育之”做自己真正的天職義務，就應該負起教育一般人的子女這種的責任，令他不抽煙、不喝酒、不吸毒，不男女不守規矩，應該在這個地方著手。
For teachers who have taken “obtaining outstanding people in the world to educate” as their true vocation and duty, they should shoulder the responsibility for educating other people”s children. They should start with instructing the students not to smoke, not to take intoxicants or drugs, and not to get involved in improper relationships with members of the opposite sex.
沒有理性的自由
Unreasonable Freedom
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◎宣化上人．一九八八年六月五日開示
A Talk Given by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, June 5, 1988 一千一萬個自由發展的孩子，就有一千一萬個發展壞了。
If there were one thousand or ten thousand children who grow up without proper control, the same number of children would have gone bad.
什麼是教育呢？小孩子要教他怎麼樣做人，教他什麼是“孝、悌、忠、信、禮、義、廉、恥”，要“擇善而從，不善而改；是道則進，非道則退。”這是亞洲的中國文化。西方文化就是迷信自由，誤解自由，不負責任的自由，生而不教的自由，老而不養的自由。幼而不教，你說生這個小孩子幹什麼？教他在世界上做一些個不合法的事情，可以說是造罪。老而不養，人年紀老了，應該老有所終，壯有所用，幼有所長。
What is education
It means we should teach children how to be upright human beings, and instruct them about the eight virtues of filial r…
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