“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” A similar Danish proverb reads, “What youth learns, age does not forget.” An English proverb says, “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” It is important, in considering the great implications of Proverbs 22:6, to remember that there is all the difference in the world between telling a child and training a child. The Hebrew word translated “train” means “to hedge in.” The word suggests