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.
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![Ill IMPARTING OF KNOWLEDGE ANOTHER thing that is due to children is that they should be told as far as possible the exact truth, when they ask a serious question. It is not easy to do this, because the truth as they receive it will depend on their faculty of apprehension; but if they know enough to ask a ques- tion, an answer, so far as it can be received by them, should be true. The answerer should always try to put himself in the questioner’s place, and look at things from his point of view: this is the essence of clear ex- planation. There may still be misun- [23]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
