The Child (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Having, after long study and laborious experi ence, sought, by the most profound reflection, to discover what the two fundamental rules in educa tion were, I have found them to be authority and respect. For this reason, I consider I ought to place these two words, so important, before all, and commence with them. No doubt, the first pages of my book will not suffice to demonstrate what I ad vance here; it is the entire book which proves the demonstration. I venture to say there is not a page in which this truth, with its forcible and vivid light, is not repeatedly met. I do not doubt, even, that the penetrating glance of elevated and attentive minds will, from the first, discover why the two holiest and greatest sentiments which can exist in humanity on earth, to wit, authority and respect, are the greatest essentials in education, and appear as the founda tion, and even the chief means of the work which it aims to accomplish. What is education actually? What is, at the same time, the highest, the most pro found, the most general, the most simple conception of it? It is this: to cultivate, to train, to develop.

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