Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work . . .
Source: Letter, 25 Aug. 1930, to his brother; in Letters from Prison, no. 162, by Gramsci; tr. by Raymond Rosenthal, 1993.
-- Antonio Gramsci, (Jan 23 1891-1937), Italian intellectual, politician; He was a founder of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas still greatly influence Italian Communism.