"If you notice something good in the young women educated in the Teresian centers, know that it is due to the crucifix. From a human point of view, modem educational theory accounts for this educational success with sound reasons. They study the life of Jesus with love; they contemplate his divine character; they meditate attentively on his extraordinary passion. All this gives rise to an affective state, capable of inspiring and sustaining the action needed to form a character.

In their Christ they unite the intellectual with the ethical and the aesthetic. The most sublime ideas which arise in the presence of the divine image acquire all the strength needed to overcome the unruly desires which oppose the purpose of education, because these ideas go together harmoniously with the most fervent feeling tones.

Biography, the most human dimension of history, becomes immensely inspiring when it narrates the life of a hero. The concreteness we give to that history when we present it in an image constitutes a double educational aid because it is communicated intuitively. In the same way, contemplation of the Crucifix is a relevant educational aid for the formative goal they pursue.

They pay tribute therefore to justice, by loving their Christ so much."