Some Thoughts Concerning Education: By John Locke, EsqJ. and R. Tonson, 1779 - 319 páginas |
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... pains to make clean his flockings . But yet truth will have it , that his health is much more worth , than all fuch confidera- tions , and ten times as much more . that confiders how mifchevious and mortal a thing taking wet in the feet ...
... pains to make clean his flockings . But yet truth will have it , that his health is much more worth , than all fuch confidera- tions , and ten times as much more . that confiders how mifchevious and mortal a thing taking wet in the feet ...
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... pain and without danger . How fond mothers are like to receive this doctrine , is not hard to forefee . What can it ཨི be lefs , than to murder their tender babes , to ufe them thus ? What ! put their feet in cold water in froft and ...
... pain and without danger . How fond mothers are like to receive this doctrine , is not hard to forefee . What can it ཨི be lefs , than to murder their tender babes , to ufe them thus ? What ! put their feet in cold water in froft and ...
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... perfectly to them- filves , and being quite dreffed , you are fure they are thoroughly awake , the being forced from their fleep , how gently foever you do it , is pain enough to them ; and care fhould be is 26 Of EDUCATION .
... perfectly to them- filves , and being quite dreffed , you are fure they are thoroughly awake , the being forced from their fleep , how gently foever you do it , is pain enough to them ; and care fhould be is 26 Of EDUCATION .
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By John Locke, Esq John Locke. is pain enough to them ; and care fhould be taken not to add any other uneasiness to it , especially fuch that may terrify them . 22. Let his bed be hard , and rather quilts than feathers . Hard Bed ...
By John Locke, Esq John Locke. is pain enough to them ; and care fhould be taken not to add any other uneasiness to it , especially fuch that may terrify them . 22. Let his bed be hard , and rather quilts than feathers . Hard Bed ...
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... pains are used to currupt children , and inftill principles of vice into them : but I defire parents foberly to confider , what irregularity or vice there is which chil- dren are not visibly taught , and whether it be not their duty and ...
... pains are used to currupt children , and inftill principles of vice into them : but I defire parents foberly to confider , what irregularity or vice there is which chil- dren are not visibly taught , and whether it be not their duty and ...
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Página 34 - I do not doubt but it is, viz. that the difference to be found in the manners and abilities of men is owing more to their education than to any thing else ; we have reason to conclude, that great care is to be had of the forming children's minds, and giving them that seasoning early, which shall influence their lives always after.
Página 61 - I shall only remark this one thing more of it ; that, though it be not the true principle and measure of virtue, (for that is the knowledge of a man's duty, and the satisfaction it is to obey his Maker, in following the dictates of that light God has given him, with the hopes of acceptation and reward...
Página 1 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world ; he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.
Página 250 - Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine that all our young gentlemen were designed to be teachers and professors of the dead languages of foreign countries, and not to be men of business in their own?
Página 77 - But till you can find a school, wherein it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars, and can show as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and...
Página 64 - Secondly, another thing got by it will be this, that by repeating the same action, till it be grown habitual in them, the performance will not depend on memory, or reflection, the concomitant of prudence and age, and not of childhood ; but will be natural in them.
Página 34 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 138 - Fashions, suitable to his Age, which Nature teaches Parents better than I can: When I say, by these Ways of Tenderness and Affection, which Parents never want for their Children, you have also planted in him a particular Affection for you, he is then in the State you could desire, and you have formed in his Mind that true Reverence which is always afterwards carefully to be continued, and maintained in both Parts of it, Love and Fear, as the great Principles whereby you will always have Hold upon...
Página 218 - When I consider, what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many Years are spent in it, and what a Noise and Business it makes to no Purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that the Parents of Children still live in fear of the School-master's Rod, which they look on as the only Instrument of Education; as a Language or two to be its whole Business.
Página 51 - This sort of correction naturally breeds an aversion to that which it is the tutor's business to create a liking to. How obvious is it to observe that children come to hate things which were at first acceptable to them, when they find themselves...