Effect on children of impurity in the parents, 3; of intemperance
in the parents, 4. Instruction and training necessary, 5. Training
must assist nature, 5. Defective natural parts may be improved by
instruction, 5, 6. Diligent effort may supply native deficiencies,
6. A virtuous character partly the effect of custom and habit, 7.
Mothers should nurse their own children, 7, 8. Manners of children
to be well-formed from the beginning, 8. Care to be taken of their
associates, 9. Teachers of children to be carefully chosen, 9,
10. Moral character of teachers to be carefully regarded, 10, 11.
Unhappy consequences of the ill-training of children, 11, 12. A good
education preferable to the gifts of fortune, 12, 13. Learning better
than bodily strength, 13. Children should be trained to think before
they speak, 14, 15. A pompous style of speech to be avoided, 16.
Tameness of speech to be avoided, 16. The principal study of youth
should be philosophy, 17, 18. Bodily exercise not to be neglected,
19. Gymnastic and military exercises, 19. Corporal and disgraceful
punishments not to be used, 20. Motives to be addressed to the
understanding and conscience, 20. Severe tasks not to be imposed
on children, 21. Relaxation to be allowed them, 21. Memory to be
cultivated, 22. A courteous manner of speaking to be inculcated.
22. Self-control to be taught, 23, 24. Restraint of the tongue,
23, 24. Sotades punished for free speech, 25. Severity to children
unwise, 26. Young men to be restrained from vicious company, 28, 29.
Flatterers to be avoided, 29. Allowance should be made for youthful
impetuosity, 30. Marriage a security for young men, 31. Fathers not
to be severe and harsh, but examples to their children, 30, 31.