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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![derstandings, but these can be de- tected and removed by a little con- versation, and the original statement can be amended accordingly. I find that if children know that parents take pains to inform them with care- ful accuracy as to any little thing on which they ask a question, and if they are themselves never suspected of saying anything but what they be- lieve to be true, so far as they can, then they will acquire instinctively a faculty for truthful statement, and the repulsive habit of lying need never even begin to form. Telling the truth is largely a mat- ter of culture and education. Ig- norant people often tell something else, either because it is lazier and [24]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
