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Read & copy the quotation
“The education of character is very much a question of models.”
- Source
- Self-Help
- Date
- 1859
Meaning of “The education of character is very much a…”
People absorb conduct from examples around them, so lived models can teach more powerfully than rules that are contradicted by behavior.
Where does it come from?
Self-Help, Chapter XII, “Example—Models,” Project Gutenberg #935. Smiles argues that character education depends heavily on models because people unconsciously mould themselves after the characters, manners, habits and opinions around them.
