"From their cradle she instilled into them the most perfect maxims of piety, and contempt of the world. the ancient Romans dreaded nothing more in the education of youth than their being ill taught the first principles of the sciences; it being more difficult to unlearn the errours then imbibed, than to begin on a meer <i>tabula rasa</i>, or blank paper"
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints
See Butler, Alban. <u>The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from Original Monuments, and Other Authentick Records</u>, 4 vols. (London, 1756-59), vol. I. 