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.
20/86 (page 16)
![ball of string, time-table, books of reference, or what not,—in its proper place, so that others can find it. Hunting about for such things is an entire waste of time. I attach con- siderable importance to this leaving things where' you find them, and clearing up litter. Adults, if busy, and school-chil- dren, sometimes may have to clear up by deputy; but if small children are too much waited on, and every- thing put away by others, it has, I believe, a demoralizing effect. It is one cause of the selfishness of the bet- ter-off classes that they are constant- ly making a mess and leaving it to others to put straight. Press of work often necessitates this; but it should [16]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)