CORRECT STRUCTURE?

Hi,

I've come across this sentence recently and it just sounds strange to me. Could anyone comment on the highlighted part, please?

As children, this lesson is drummed into us again and again: haste makes waste, look before you leap, stop and think.

I would rephrase it into something like: As children, we were... ; I mean, I would make the other subject

Thanks for you reply, Clive, but I was asking about something else. It seems that I failed to make myself clear: I am perfectly fine with the tenses, I worry about the subject of the sentence, which is "lesson", though from the very beginning of the sentence I would expect "we" to be in the place of the subject. Thus, the sentence sounds weird to me because it looks a bit like "this lesson" was b

Hi,

As children, this lesson is drummed into us

Thanks for you reply, Clive, but I was asking about something else. It seems that I failed to make myself clear: I am perfectly fine with the tenses, I worry about the subject of the sentence, which is "lesson", though from the very beginning of the sentence I would expect "we" to be in the place of the subject. Thus

Thanks, Clive. It still sounds a bit odd (in my mother tongue something like this would probably have been classified as anacoluthon) but at last I can see your point.