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Some Thoughts on Education. With Notes and an Historical Account of the Progress of Education, by J.a. St. John
Some Thoughts on Education With Notes and an Historical Account of the Progress of Education by Ja St John Author:John Locke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Original Publisher: Hatchard Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select... more » from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: But yet I do say, that inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution, in the future part of their lives. Not to bemoan them, or permit them to bemoan themselves, on every little pain they suffer, is the first step to be made. But of this I have spoken elsewhere. The next thing is, sometimes designedly to put them in pain : but care must be taken, that this be done when the child is in good humour, and satisfied of the goodwill and kindness of him that hurts him, at the time that he does it. There must no marks of anger, or displeasure, on the one side, nor compassion, or repenting, on the other, go along with it: and it must be sure to be no more than the child can bear, without repining or taking it amiss, or for a punishment. Managed by these degrees, and with such circumstances, I have seen a child run away laughing, with good smart blows of a wand on his back, who would have cried for an unkind word, and been very sensible of the chastisement of a cold look, from the same person. Satisfy a child, by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustomed to bear very painful, and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining: and this we see children do every day in play one with another. The softer you find your child is, the more you are to seek occasions, at fit times, thus to harden him. The great art inthis is, to begin with what is but very little painful, and to proceed by insensible...« less