[bá miáo zhù zhǎng]
try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward -- spoil things by excessive enthusiasm (descriptive of a person, impatient for success, so acts as to destroy the very conditions upon which success depends); pull up a seedling in the mistaken hope of helping it to grow; pull up corn by the roots in the hope of making it grow faster; pull up seedlings to help them grow
To educate the young generation in such a way is just like making the rice shoots grow by pulling them up.
用这种方法教育下一代无异于拔苗助长。