Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare].

  • Louisa Gurney Hoare
Date:
1822
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Credit: Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    twn of the Character loJien matured] rather than hy confining our Views to the immediate effect of our labour. Premature acquirements, premature quickness of mind, premature feeling, and even premature propriety of conduct, are not often the evidences of real strength of character, and are rarely followed by coiTesjionding fruits in future life. Lastly,—Onhearingin mind a just sense of the comparative Importance of the Objects at which we aim. As in the general conduct of life, it is the part of wisdom to sacrifice the less to the greater good; so is this eminently the case in the subject before us. Now the primary, the essential object of edu- cation is this,—to form in children a religious habit of mind, founded on the divine principles of Christianity, and leading to the habitual exercise of prac- B 5