If you want to educate others, educate yourself first. That’s what it means.

To be strict with others, you must first be strict with yourself; to make yourself upright, you must first make your heart upright. Words of wisdom for cultivating the mind.

Law: Constraint. Explanation: To restrain others, you must first restrain yourself. You must set a good example for others. This is what is meant by the saying, “Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.”

Completely speaking: to correct others first correct oneself, to discipline others first to discipline oneself. Meaning: In order for everyone to do well, you must first do well yourself. What you ask others to do, you must do it first.

If a person wants to educate others, he must first learn to be a good person himself. The prerequisite for being a good person is to learn self-discipline.