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Literally, leaving out the tovo as redundant in English, this proverb means What Johnnie hasn't learnt, John won't learn.
I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.
By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.
Because we were an alien family, dad and mum were very keen that we learnt how to compose ourselves in this new society.
"Our parents learnt from the great depression, made deeper and more lethal by rising trade barriers from which came the twin tyrannies of our age, fascism and Marxism, thus war; hot and cold.