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 educated is threefold: (1) Faith and Piety; (2) Uprightness in respect of morals; (3) Knowledge of languages and arts. These, however, in the precise order in which they are here propounded, and not inversely. In the first place, youth must be exercised in piety, then in the morals or virtues, finally in the more advanced literature. The greater the proficiency the youth makes in the latter, the better.

9. Whosoever has within his house youth exercising themselves in these three departments, possesses a garden in which celestial plantlets are sown, watered, bloom, and flourish; a studio, as it were, of the Holy Spirit, in which He elaborates and polishes those vessels of mercy, those instruments of glory, so that in them, as lively images of God, the rays of His eternal and infinite power, wisdom, and bounty, may shine more and more. How inexpressibly blessed are parents in such a paradise!