On a number of occasions I have been asked to express, verbally or in writing, a few thoughts concerning the so-called "Preventive System" which we are accustomed to use in our houses. Until now I have not been able to comply with this request for lack of time, but since at the present moment we are preparing to print the regulations, which now have been observed as it were by tradition, I have thought it may be fitting to present here an outline of it, which will serve as a sketch for a small work which I am preparing, if God will give me life, long enough to complete it. I do this solely to help in the difficult art of educating the young. Therefore I will speak about in what the Preventive System consists and why it should be preferred; its practical application and its advantages
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Don Bosco writes...
On a number of occasions I have been asked to express, verbally or in writing, a few thoughts concerning the so-called "Preventive System" which we are accustomed to use in our houses. Until now I have not been able to comply with this request for lack of time, but since at the present moment we are preparing to print the regulations, which now have been observed as it were by tradition, I have thought it may be fitting to present here an outline of it, which will serve as a sketch for a small work which I am preparing, if God will give me life, long enough to complete it. I do this solely to help in the difficult art of educating the young. Therefore I will speak about in what the Preventive System consists and why it should be preferred; its practical application and its advantages