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Education 125
dissatisfaction of those who are bringing him
up can only be made effective when it falls
as a shadow in the usual sunny atmosphere of
home. And if people refrain from laying the
foundations of obedience while the child is
small, and his naughtiness is entertaining,
Spencer’s method undoubtedly will be found
unsuitable after the child is older and his ca-
price disagreeable.
With a veiy small child, one should not
argue, but act consistently and immediately.
The effort of training should be directed at an
early period to arrange the experiences in a
consistent whole of impressions according to
Rousseau and Spencer’s recommendation.
So certain habits will become impressed in the
flesh and blood of the child.
Constant crying on the part of small child-
ren must be corrected when it has become clear
that the crying is not caused by illness or some
other discomfort,—discomforts against which
crying is the child’s only weapon. Crying is
now ordinarily corrected by blows. But this
does not master the will of the child, and only
produces in his soul the idea that older people
strike small children, when small children cry.
This is not an ethical idea. But when the cry-
ing child is immediately isolated, and it is
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