People come into this world like a blank video cassette in a camcorder. Clean & fresh — ready for input. Francis Xavier, great Catholic educator: “Give me a child until he is 7 and anyone else can have him for life.” Old proverb: “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”
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Alternate version: “Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man.” (It is also attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits).