I have always found the best way is through mothers who have gained the confidence of their boys and who know through them what really goes on.

In this way, as mothers wake up to the danger their boys run and to their own responsibility in guarding them, we shall be able to help one another more and more.

But make a point of yourself, as well as the boy's father, personally seeing the master to whom you think of entrusting your lad, and talking over the matter with him.

In this way you will not only satisfy yourself, but you will strengthen his hands by making him feel how vital the whole question is to your heart.

What more than anything else weakens the high-minded men who have the tuition of the young is the utter unconcern that is evinced by the parents and the sense that, by the payment of a sum of money down, they can compound with a master for the performance of their inalienable duty of undertaking the moral education of their own children.
Here let me give you two most earnest cautions.