The education which ignores that, ignores all that really matters. So too with the child in family life. Make the of a child's ambition selfish - money, fame, power, anything but service, and you dwarf and cripple his soul, do a grievous wrong to him and to God and to the world. The family is the school of unselfishness, the first and the best. A child learns by atmosphere, grows by it far more than by direct precept.
Character communicates itself.
You must inwardly be what you would have your child be. There also the Lord looketh on the heart. Attention has been recently directed to three noble utterances. The King spoke of the courage, wisdom and unselfishness by which all that was great in our Empire had been built and by which alone it could endure. The Queen spoke of those simple lessons of love, kindness and unselfishness which in cloud and sunshine are the strength and beauty of life.