Parents have the first Responsibility for the Education of their children. They bear Witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, Forgiveness, Respect, Fidelity, and diSinterested Service are the rule. the home is well suited for education in the Virtues. This Requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound Judgment, and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true Freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the "material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones." 31 Parents have a Grave responsibility to give good Example to their children. By knowing how to acKnowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them: