For Aristotle the whole point of law, the purpose of polis is to shape character, to cultivate the virtue of citizens, to inculcate civic excellence, to make possible a good way of life.
Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.
This is, of course, especially true of public art — the art chosen self-consciously by public institutions to symbolize the public order and to inculcate in its viewers appropriate attitudes toward that order.”
Half the sex, in its present infantine state, would pine for a Lovelace; a man so witty, so graceful, and so valiant; and can they DESERVE blame for acting according to principles so constantly inculcated?
He sought to inculcate in our minds feelings of kindness towards each other, of dependence upon God— setting forth the rewards promised unto those who lead an upright and prayerful life.
And the way that happens is we start to think of desires that are originally aimed at something because it's a means to an end through habit that gets inculcated.
Evil white people, black people are still slaves, etc., etc. That is inculcated and absorbed, not just on the campus, but it drifts off in all these different ways.
For a wildly successful, ambitious warrior-king in the prime of life, a man inculcated in that post-Alexander culture of constant war and treachery, simply not participating wasn't an option.
It's chock full of employees who receive the ministerial exception precisely because they perform those functions of expressing and inculcating doctrine that the state needs to stay away from.
All to often though classroom style courses meant to inculcate such skills do not succeed in getting trainees to practice what they have learned In togo.