Read the following passage crefully and answer the questions below in your words: "To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler…

Read the following passage crefully and answer the questions below in your words:

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and no trouble" said a well known writer. This may explain why in this world there is more of preaching than of practice. We do not mean the preaching which we get in church, but that which is given freely and without stint, on buses, in the streets and even in the homes of our land. Where is the parent who does not discover himself telling his child to do just what he himself does regularly? How many people are there who are certain that they have never made anything but financial mistakes? The man who never swam a stroke feels perfectly competent to tell another how to swim. The man who can not find his way to modest livelihood pretends to know just how to save the nation from all economic ills. It is no trouble to preach. But it is a considerable trouble to carry out what we preach. This is so the man who is striving to climb the loftiest heights know just how difficult is the way.

Questions:

(a) What does the quoted expression mean?

(b) Why is practicing more difficult than preaching?

(c) What does the writer mean by preaching?

(d) What do the parents tell their children to do?

(e) How does the honest preacher preach to himself?