 I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,...  The Table Talk of John Selden - Página 66por John Selden - 1818 - 180 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...generalization that "endeavoring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour"; "Miss [Aikin] was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding school, so that all her employment now is, 'To suckle... | |
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