Teach Them EarlyWhen You Still Can

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 2 p.m.

Cato the Younger was not an easy man to get to do something. If he felt it went against his conscience or that it was illogical, you\u2019d have an easier time convincing a fish to climb a tree. That\u2019s just how he was. All his life.So, as you can imagine, Cato was not an easy student. He resisted anyone and everyone who tried to tell him what to do. Plutarch, one of his biographers, observed that \u201cto learn is simply to allow something to be done to you and to be quickly persuaded is natura...