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Part 1 · Teaching · lecture 2 · 2 groups · not yet coveredThe father's fault

The video for this lecture is still in production. For now this page gives the text, the base-edition pages, a recording and a translation.

養不教,父之過,教不嚴,師之惰。子不學,非所宜,幼不學,老何爲。
Text from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes, checked line by line against the base edition, Wang Xiang's Sanzijing xungu (1831 Japanese reprint). The page scans are from that edition; click a group to frame it on the page.

TrTranslation

養不教,父之過,教不嚴,師之惰。
To raise a child without teaching is the father's fault. To teach without strictness is the teacher's neglect.

子不學,非所宜,幼不學,老何爲。
For a child not to study is not as it should be. If one does not learn when young, what will one do when old?

Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.

From the Father's Lecture Notes

When something goes wrong, first ask whose share it was. These two groups divide the responsibility three ways: the father's, the teacher's and the child's own. It is the only place in the book that names the father, and the only place that puts the father ahead of the child.

Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.

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