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Education 153
This corruption of personality begins fre-
quently at the tenderest age under the
influence of early training. Children are
given untrue motives, half-true information;
are threatened, admonished. The child’s will,
thought, and feeling are oppressed; against
this treatment dishonesty is the readiest method
of defence. In this way educators who make
truth their highest aim, make children un-
truthful. I watched a child who was severely
punished for denying something he had un-
consciously done, and noted how under the
influence of this senseless punishment he de-
veloped extreme dissimulation.
Truthfulness requires above everything un-
broken determination; and many nervous little
liars need nourishing food and life in the open
air, not blows. A great artist, one of the few
who live wholly according to the modern prin-
ciples of life, said to me on one occasion: " My
son does not know what a lie is, nor what a
blow is. His step-brother, on the other hand,
lied when he came into our house; but lying
did not work in the atmosphere of calm and
freedom. After a year the habit disappeared
by itself, only because it always met with deep
astonishment."
This makes me, in passing, note one of the
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