Progressive Education: Observations on the first four years of childhoodLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Education |
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... parental authority , the pupil ought to co - operate more and more in his own education . Lastly , during the third period , the individual having become the arbiter of his own destiny , is called upon to labour himself for the perfect ...
... parental authority , the pupil ought to co - operate more and more in his own education . Lastly , during the third period , the individual having become the arbiter of his own destiny , is called upon to labour himself for the perfect ...
Page xxv
... parental control . I shall describe , as accurately as I can , his moral constitution at different ages ; and draw from ... parents retain all their rights over him ; but by degrees their power escapes from them , and their autho- rity ...
... parental control . I shall describe , as accurately as I can , his moral constitution at different ages ; and draw from ... parents retain all their rights over him ; but by degrees their power escapes from them , and their autho- rity ...
Page xxvii
... parents , he was entering into their views , as well as promoting his own interest , by endeavouring to adorn his mind with knowledge , and his soul with virtue . Nor is it without a great moral shock that the pivot of life can be ...
... parents , he was entering into their views , as well as promoting his own interest , by endeavouring to adorn his mind with knowledge , and his soul with virtue . Nor is it without a great moral shock that the pivot of life can be ...
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Albertine Adrienne de Saussure Necker. parents , by placing them in a situation in which all their interests and feelings concur to make them acknowledge the necessity of moral- ity , and of its only true source , religion . Then it is ...
Albertine Adrienne de Saussure Necker. parents , by placing them in a situation in which all their interests and feelings concur to make them acknowledge the necessity of moral- ity , and of its only true source , religion . Then it is ...
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... Parents are often tempted to take advantage of the ruling passion , and are afraid of bringing down their child to the level of ordinary characters . But with children nothing is of so much consequence as to have their faculties and ...
... Parents are often tempted to take advantage of the ruling passion , and are afraid of bringing down their child to the level of ordinary characters . But with children nothing is of so much consequence as to have their faculties and ...
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