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"Those who have to educate...must themselves be striving for some higher excellence, and must believe and care deeply for the things they teach. For no one can be educated by maxim and precept; it is the life lived and the things loved and the ideals believed in by which we tell [what is important].... If we want [to see in our children] integrity of character, steadiness, reliability, courage, thoroughness, all the harder qualities that serve as a backbone, we , at least, make others want them also, and strive for them by the power of example... not set as a deliberate good example, for that is as tame as precept; but the example of the life that is lived, and the truths that are honestly believed in."
Janet Erskine Stuart, in "The Education of Catholic Girls", Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1911, pp38
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