The educational functions of proverbs mainly come into two parts: moral education and intelligence education.

Young people engaged in mental work should also undergo a period of manual labour, which is essential to their all-round development, morally, intellectually and physically.

According to the experts, the biggest lesson learned from the current education is that intellectual training figures too largely in the school work to leave room for moral culture.

However, at present, the tendency of putting much more emphasis on intellectual and academic training than on virtue and personality training exists in most universities and colleges.

Our educational policy must enable the educated to develop morally, intellectually and physically.