DUTY OF PARENTS AS EDUCATORS.
"Jewish education began with the mother. . . . The very household duties she performed moulded her children in accordance with the national discipline. The Sabbath meal, the kindling of the Sabbath lamp, and the setting apart of a portion of the dough from the bread for the household, — these are but instances with which every taph, as he clung to his mother's skirts, must have been familiar. . . . Long before the child could go to school or synagogue the private and united prayers and the domestic rites, whether of the weekly Sabbath or of festive seasons, would indelibly impress themselves upon his mind. . . . More than this, it was in the school at the mother's knee that the stories of patriarchs and prophets, of statesmen and warriors, of poets and sages, of kings and judges, wise men and patriots, and of the great Lawgiver himself, — the whole forming the very best material for the purposes of child-nurture found in any language, — were told and retold until they became parts of the mind itself. . . . As teachers of their children, the women of every country may learn lessons from the matrons of Israel. . . .160 "Jewish education was conducted on what is now called the intensive plan. The home, the school, and the synagogue reinforced one another." — Hinsdale, in Jesus as a Teacher.