Moreover, this would be the true way to bring up children well as long as they can become trained with kindness and delight. For what must be enforced with rods and blows only will not develop into a good breed, and at best they will remain godly under such treatment no longer than while the rod is upon their back.
77] But this [manner of training] so spreads its roots in the heart that they fear God more than rods and clubs.
Martin Luther, Large Catechism
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