..续本文上一页he womb. 在小孩子生出来了，做父母的一定要给子女做个好榜样，不要那么争啊！吵啊！自私自利、贪、求、打妄语啊！如果你有这样的行为，那子女是见到什么，就会学什么。譬如大人会讲话，小孩子也一点一点就会讲话了。他受这种的影响力是很大的。所以做父母的不能说能养子女，不能教子女。你能养子女，那是帮助国家生一个国民了；可是你不能教养子女，这是没有负起对国家、对社会的关心。你没把你生出的子女教育好，令他做一个问题儿童，甚至于危害社会国家，这都是做父母的要负的责任。
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，要以教育子女为当务之急，不要把“去赚钱、去搞名搞利”，做为第一了。应该以教育子女，做为最要紧的一件事情。你若是把子女教育好了，比你为他赚多少钱都有价值；因为他知道怎么样做人，怎么样爱惜身体了。所以子女在家庭，还没有入学的这个阶段，教育的责任是父母的。
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. 那么等到他一踏入学校，学校做人师表的，应该要以身作则，影响得学生尽量知道怎么样敦品立德，怎么样能孝顺父母，尊敬长上。一开始的时候，要教他孝道。万佛圣城的小学，尽量灌输小学生孝顺父母；在家里要替父母工作，也要顺承父母的意思。所以万佛圣城的小学生回到家里，他的父母都非常满意的。
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. 老师以“得天下英才而教育之”做自己真正的天职义务，就应该负起教育一般人的子女这种的责任，令他不抽烟、不喝酒、不吸毒，不男女不守规矩，应该在这个地方着手。
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.
没有理性的自由
Unreasonable Freedom
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◎宣化上人．一九八八年六月五日开示
A Talk Given by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, June 5, 1988 一千一万个自由发展的孩子，就有一千一万个发展坏了。
If there were one thousand or ten thousand children who grow up without proper control, the same number of children would have gone bad.
什么是教育呢？小孩子要教他怎么样做人，教他什么是“孝、悌、忠、信、礼、义、廉、耻”，要“择善而从，不善而改；是道则进，非道则退。”这是亚洲的中国文化。西方文化就是迷信自由，误解自由，不负责任的自由，生而不教的自由，老而不养的自由。幼而不教，你说生这个小孩子干什么？教他在世界上做一些个不合法的事情，可以说是造罪。老而不养，人年纪老了，应该老有所终，壮有所用，幼有所长。
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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