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Education 115
While on the other side unexpected friendli-
ness, kind advances, just indignation, make
quite as deep an impression on those senses
which people term as soft as wax but treat as
if they were made of cowhide.
/ Relatively most excellent was the old edu-
cation which consisted solely in keeping one-
self whole, pure, and honourable. For it did
not at least depreciate personality, although
it did not form it. It would be well if but a
hundredth part of the pains now taken by
parents were given to interference with the
life of the child and the rest of the ninety and
nine employed in leading, without interfer-
ence, in acting as an unforeseen, an invisible
providence through which the child obtains ex-
perience, from which he may draw his own
conclusions. The present practice is to im-
press one’s own discoveries, opinions, and prin-
ciples on the child by constantly directing his
actions. The last thing to be realised by the
educator is that he really has before him an
entirely new soul, a real self whose first and
chief right is to think over the things with
which he comes in contact. By a new soul he
understands only a new generation of an old
humanity to be treated with a fresh dose of the
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