The active statesman is often an incomparable teacher, however, when he is himself least conscious that he is teaching at all, when he has no thought of being didactic, but has simply a heart full of the high purpose of leading his fellow-countrymen to do those things which he conceives to be right.
Wilson emphasizes the value of active statesmen as teachers who lead by example rather than through formal instruction.
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