proverb · Words worth keeping
Teaching the youth is like engraving in stones.
Teaching the youth is like engraving in stones.
Historical period not yet established
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
Teaching young people as engraving stone gives early learning an image of durability. The saying values impressions that may last beyond the lesson.
What the words are saying
The material permanence is an analogy rather than a developmental guarantee. A responsible interpretation values education without assuming young people are fixed by one teaching or cannot revise beliefs. Learners have differing needs and agency, and later experience can also change understanding.
Everyday example
An educator considers the lasting significance of a lesson while leaving room for questions and revision.
When to use it
Use it to discuss the value of early learning with flexibility respected.
What it does not mean
No permanent belief imprint or inability to learn differently later is established.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
Colombia
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin.- Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- Contributor-provided wisdom reference (2014 AD)
Supplied reference B; unit 205; PDF page 25; collection label: Colombia
A collection's publication date can be later than the words it records.
- Culture
- Colombia