TRAINING BY EXAMPLE

Albert Schweitzer is known all over the world as a theologian, a philosopher, a medical doctor, and a musician; but most of all, as a dedicated missionary who spent more than 50 years nursing lepers in the jungles of Lambarene in West Africa.

Once when he was on home leave back in Europe, some of his relatives asked him for some advice on the best way to raise children. Schweitzer did not launch out into long explanation. His answer was cut and dried, short and simple and, therefore, all the more convincing.

“So you want to know the best way of raising children?,” he said. “Well, first by good example. Second, by good example. Third, by good example.”