Proverbs 12:1

The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, ¹  but the one who hates reproof is stupid. ² 

Ps 32:9; Ps 92:6; Ps 119:27,97-100; Pr 2:10,11; Pr 5:12,13; Pr 8:17,32; Pr 9:7,8; Pr 18:1; Isa 1:3; 2Th 2:10

¹ sn Those who wish to improve themselves must learn to accept correction; the fool hates/rejects any correction.

² sn The word בָּעַר (ba’ar, “brutish; stupid”) normally describes dumb animals that lack intellectual sense. Here, it describes the moral fool who is not willing to learn from correction. He is like a dumb animal (so the term here functions as a hypocatastasis: implied comparison).