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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Children should not be suffer'd to lose the consideration of human nature in the shufflings of outward conditions.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
The custom of tormenting and killing of beasts will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
You would think him a very foolish Fellow, that should not value a Vertuous, or a Wise Man, infinitely before a great Scholar.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
He should be instructed how to know and distinguish them; where he should let them see, and when dissemble the knowledge of them and their aims and workings.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
You have not that power you ought to have over him, till he comes to be more afraid of offending so good a friend than of losing some part of his future expectation.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. Maxima debetur pueris reverentia [The greatest respect is owed to the children].
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
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.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk'd, and their inquiries neglected.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)