Teaching By Example

2/2/2011

John Ruskin said it best:

"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know.  It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.  It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust.  It means, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls.  It is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, but above all - by example."