9 August
It’s the feast day of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, above.
Edith Stein was German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun. She was killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz on this date in 1942.
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.