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If the mind be
curbed and humbled too much in children, if their spirits be abased and
broken by too strict an hand over them, they lose all their vigour and
industry... dejected minds, timorous and tame, and low spirits are hardly
ever to be raised, and very seldom attain anything... he that has found a
way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, free and yet, at the same
time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to drive him to
things that are uneasy to him, he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these
seeming contradictions has in my opinion, got the true secret of education. |
