Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Train - Initiate, and so, educate.
The way he should go - Or, according to the tenor of his way, i. e., the path especially belonging to, especially fitted for, the individual' s character. The proverb enjoins the closest possible study of each child' s temperament and the adaptation of "his way of life" to that.
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