Some authorities have stood on an eminence, and said that neither punishment nor reward should be used, that knowledge should be loved for its own sake.

But if it was not loved, after many invitations, the problem remained.

As usual the real solution seems to be attainable only by one who really loves both knowledge and children, or one who loves knowledge and can love children, as Vittorino da Feltre loved them both, and also Blessed Thomas More.

These two affections mingled together produce great educators--great in the proportion in which the two are possessed--as either one or the other declines the educational power diminishes, till it dwindles down to offer trained substitutes and presentable mediocrities for living teachers.

The fundamental principle reasserts itself, that "love feels no labour, or if it does it loves the labour." Here is one of our Catholic secrets of strength.