Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.
- Oliver Lodge
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
19/86 (page 15)
![be of incalculable value. Children have an instinctive sense for reality of conviction, they have a knack of penetrating to what people really are, so that mere convention and what are called pious opinions carry but little weight. Much can be accom- plished by good nursery traditions; notably training in consideration for others, modesty, helpfulness, rever- ence for elders, and self-subordina- tion; great things which no one now addressed is likely to overlook. A minor thing is tidiness,—not to the extent of not making a litter, but of not leaving it; especially the habit of putting things back where found, the automatic replacement of any object of common property,-—clothes-brush, [15]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
