With respect to the education which is acquired in the society itself, the remedy is not difficult.  This education was shewn to be of two kinds.

On that part of it, which is moral or religious, I may observe, that the remedy is in the parents themselves.  The first thing to be recommended is an universal vigilance over the disposition and manners of children, so that no censurable appearance, whether in temper or in conduct, may be allowed to pass without suitable notice or reproof, or that the bud, which promises to be corruptive of morals, should no sooner make its appearance, than it should be cut off.  In cases of so much importance, as where the happiness both of parents and children is concerned, the former should be peculiarly circumspect.  They should not talk about things, but insist upon them, on all proper occasions.  They should not point out, but redress.  They should not lop off the branches, but lay the axe to the root.  And surely youth is the best season for such wholesome interference.  It is, in the first place, the season in which a remedy is practicable; for we are assured, “if we train up a child in the way he should go, that, when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  It is, secondly, the season in which it is most practicable; for can we hope to bend the tree so easily to our form, as the sapling from whence it came? and, thirdly, it is the season in which it is practicable only, for will not a small irregularity grow, if uncontrolled, to a greater?  Will not one irregularity also, if not properly checked, give birth to others?  And may not these be so incorporated into the inner man in a course of time, that it may be as difficult for parents to eradicate them, as for the Ethiopian to change his colour, or the leopard his spots?  But surely the Quakers ought to know the impropriety of undue indulgences in their families, as well as any other people?  Is not the early subjugation of the will a doctrine more particularly adopted by them as a society?  Without such a subjugation do they not conceive the mind to be in an unfit state to receive the admonitions of the pure principle, and of course to make a true proficiency in religion?  Do they not consider themselves also as a highly professing people, and do they not know that the world expects more from them than from others?  But how can their children ever perpetuate this extraordinary character after them, or shew that their parents possessed it, unless they are brought up in a peculiarly guarded manner?  In addition to these observations it may be recommended, that parents should be careful to give their children what may be called a literal instruction in Christianity, in contradistinction to pure theism, or to those doctrines which they conceive may come from the teachings of the Holy Spirit, so that they may have a more intimate knowledge of all their principles, as a Christian body.