by CR (117)
In regard to the uprightness of character, parents and teachers who are able to pass on to their children and students, the living, high-sounding language of example, will exercise an exceptional influence over them which will translate into esteem, obedience and respect.
There is no exaggeration in the claim that the world increasingly lacks competent and honorable parents and teachers. Those who really are so, have in their hands prodigious tools, with which they will be able to greatly improve and mould the character of adolescents under their guidance.
There are parents whose character is inferior to that of their children, just as there are teachers who are educators only in name, due to their intellectual gifts. However, bad examples are not replicated by those who have spiritual discernment to recognise them and condemn them.
Parents and teachers of bad character on the one hand, and more spiritually evolved children and students on the other, always march on different directions, each seeking to satisfy their desires, whether they are sick and vicious, or beneficial and purifying.
The teacher's job should not be limited to the pedagogical instruction of the students. The school, because it complements and is an extension of the home, imposes on the teachers the unquestionable duty of instilling in students' minds, edifying concepts capable of making them good citizens.
If the action of the teachers is admirable and highly deserving in the improvement of the character of the students, much more so is the role of parents, whose inescapable duty is to observe the general character of the children, when they are little, because this is the stage where the correction of bad behaviour offers better results.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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