How little is this text regarded! We live in days when there is a mighty zeal for education, new schools rising on all sides, new systems and new books of every description for training the young. These things may well give rise to great searchings of heart. The subject is one that should come home to every conscience; there is hardly a household that it does not touch.
This is preeminently a subject in which we can see the faults of our neighbors more clearly than our own. We need to suspect our own judgment. I have sometimes been perfectly astonished at the slowness of sensible Christian parents to allow that their children are in the fault or deserve blame.
Come now and let us have before us a few hints — words in season. Reject them not, because they are blunt and simple.