To spoil things by excessive enthusiasm or by acting with undue haste; to use improper methods to achieve quick success, often resulting in failure.
教育孩子不能拔苗助长，否则会让他们失去学习的兴趣。
Educating children should not be like pulling up sprouts to help them grow; otherwise, it will make them lose interest in learning.
Era:
Modern
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Story:
A long time ago, in the State of Song, there was a farmer who worried that his rice shoots were not growing tall enough. He went to check his field every day.
Three days passed, but the shoots showed no significant change. He came up with an idea, rushed to the field, and pulled up each shoot a little higher.
When he returned home, he proudly told his son that the shoots had grown much taller. His son ran to the field to see, only to find that all the shoots had withered and died.
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