Teaching and learning stereotypes reflected in paroemias of different languages
The paroemiological fund of any language includes persistent, reproducible and instructive proverbs and sayings that reflect native-speakers' stereotypical perception of the world. After looking into paroemias of different languages, we were able to formulate the following ethnic and cultural features of education. French proverbs and sayings about education can be broken down into several categories: 1) conditions of efficient education: practice, incentive, zeal, examples, memory, age; continuity of education; 2) requirements to students: laconic brevity, diligence, attention, zeal, ambition; 3) possibilities provided by education: professional success, wisdom; 4) knowledge value versus material wealth Other languages also have alternative stereotypes in paroemias. The Chinese language assigns an important role to parents and tutors in the process of education. The German language underlines the vital necessity of education. It's also noted that redundancy can be a major obstacle of education. The Danish language pays attention to the quality of education and its importance for human survival and social promotion. Japanese proverbs and sayings about education reflect the value of the past to understand the future. Russian proverbs and sayings feature certain contradiction in appreciating someone's abilities to teach others or to learn something: some paroemias insist on necessity of learning abilities, while others deny them.