The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    able and discourage unfavorable influences. Her sense of the importance, the sacredness of trust which her relationship puts upon her would be vastly increased. And as a result, her duties would be ever so much better performed. At the same time, a thorough knowledge of physi- ology is fully as essential. If the same amount of time that is now devoted to the stupefying study of gram- mar, of the battles of some ancient war-lord whose main claim to distinction was a faculty for oppressing and killing off the peasantry on his lands, of the intri- cate casuistries of so-called mental and moral philoso- phy, were given to an understanding of the functions for the human body, its methods of reaction and the phenomena of its metabolism, the benefits of the change would be too great to be easily computed. This change would mean a knowledge of what most, rather than of what least, concerns one. Comparing great things with small, it would be analogous to the relative importance of knowing, on the one hand, all the necessary details of one’s household, upon which the comfort, health and happiness of the inmates rest, and, on the other, of being acquainted with the petty political vicissitudes of a remote South American city. In making such a choice there is no doubt on which side any sensible person should stand. And likewise, in an impartially considered scheme of education for a girl, there is as little uncertainty concerning the value