THE CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT BY SOMEBODY.

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 223, 19 January 1914, Page 3

THE CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT BY SOMEBODY.

The greatest mi'take we are all making is the assumption that if we, the teachers, parents, and friends of the children, are not imparting the necessary instruction on important matters usually avoided, then no instruction is being received. W here as, the real condition is that “the air is full of it !” No child, no boy at least, can escape it. The child does not wait for this instruction as he does for other learning. He finds it in the wrong place, from the wrong teacher. As evidence of this, just inspect the walls and doors. Most children learn very young that certain subjects are never taught in places where instruction in other subjects is given. Many greatly fear that the child will “know too much.” and therefore meet Ids perfectly in no* cent questions with all sorts of lies and evasions. Let us remember that from impure and forbidden sources some teat hing is certain to come to most children; and therefore, by our tactful, refined, and frank enlightenment of necessary truth will come the protecting and guarding armour for the young life, wliiili is so needed to maintain purity. W Idle we hesitate, boys and girls, young men and women, are going to destruction.