In choosing teachers to be the guides and exemplars of our children, we demand high moral worth; and we would as soon thrust our youth into the centre of pestilence, as amid the contagion of vicious and profligate men.
Mann stresses the necessity of high moral standards in educators for the sake of children’s welfare.
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