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A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. (John Locke)
Children have as much mind to shew that they are free. View quote
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And he who thinks that these two roots of almost all the injustice and contention that so disturb human life, are not early to be weeded out, and contrary habits introduc'd, neglects the proper season to lay the foundations of a good and worthy man. View quote
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Children should not be suffer'd to lose the consideration of human nature in the shufflings of outward conditions. View quote
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Teach them humility, and to be good-natur'd. View quote
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Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. View quote
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They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power. View quote
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Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are two sorts of ill-breeding. View quote
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None of the things they learn, should ever be. (John Locke)
That force is to be opposed to nothing, but to unjust and unlawful force. View quote
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For as these are different in him, so are your methods to be different, and your authority must. View quote
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Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature. View quote
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Lying... is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, and take shelter under it, that a child should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence of it imaginable. It should be always spoke of before him with the utmost detestation, as. View quote
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The imagination is always restless and suggests a variety of thoughts, and the will, reason being laid aside, is ready for every extravagant project. View quote
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. View quote
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. View quote
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world. View quote
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. View quote
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This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. (John Locke)
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera. View quote
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world and, it lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. View quote
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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows. View quote
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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. View quote
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