Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare].
- Louisa Gurney Hoare
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![general principles of education. Success in Education depends, First,—More on Prevention than Cure] more on securing our children from injury, than on forcing upon them what is right. If we wish, for instance, to render a child courageous, we shall effect it, not so much by ui^ng and compelling him to feats of hardihood, as by guarding him from all impressions of terror, or from witnessing a weak and cowardly spirit in others. Secondj:.y,—On Example rather than on Precept and Advice. As the bodies of children are imper- ceptibly affected by the air they breathe, so are their minds by the moral atmos- phere which surrounds them; that is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28747112_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
