An excerpt from a post by Stephen Klugewicz at the Imaginative Conservative concerns the education of young men...worth reading the entire post:
"[Robert E.] Lee’s amazing self-restraint reflected the advice he had given to a young mother about raising her infant son: 'Teach him he must deny himself.' The Christian Lee valued self-control as essential to proper behavior and indeed to personal and public liberty. 'I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself,' he said in evaluating his military subordinates. Lee practiced what he preached. He had the rare distinction of being a cadet who did not earn a single demerit at West Point. He expected the same gentlemanly behavior from the young men in his care at Lexington, Virginia’s Washington College, of which he became president after Appomattox. There he reduced the college’s many rules to one simple rule: 'Every student must be a gentleman.'"
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"[Robert E.] Lee’s amazing self-restraint reflected the advice he had given to a young mother about raising her infant son: 'Teach him he must deny himself.' The Christian Lee valued self-control as essential to proper behavior and indeed to personal and public liberty. 'I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself,' he said in evaluating his military subordinates. Lee practiced what he preached. He had the rare distinction of being a cadet who did not earn a single demerit at West Point. He expected the same gentlemanly behavior from the young men in his care at Lexington, Virginia’s Washington College, of which he became president after Appomattox. There he reduced the college’s many rules to one simple rule: 'Every student must be a gentleman.'"
Read the post in its entirety.