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Is it possible for education to begin before birth? Yes. Because true education is primarily
subconscious. A child is not a little animal which you can start training as soon as it is old
enough. A mother can have a beneficial influence on her child in the womb through the harmony
of her thoughts, acts and feelings. And this pre-natal influence must be faithfully continued
once the baby is born, for, as all parents should realize, a tiny baby is highly sensitive to
its environment. Ultimately, it is by example that parents and pedagogues should accomplish their
educational mission.
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How many people who decide to have children have ever stopped to ask themselves whether
they are fitted to do so? Are they healthy? Do they have the means to provide for them
properly? And, above all, do they have the qualities they need to be a constant example
and to give their children security and consolation in all circumstances? They never even
talk about it. They bring children into the world and leave them to bring themselves up.
And the children do what they can on their own and then, one day, they too have children
in the same deplorable conditions as their parents.
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