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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![sidiary details. A bad kind of in- struction overloads the mind with de- tail before the main features have been grasped; i.e., before there is any framework into which to pack the details. This is most discouraging. It is the kind of thing that gradually generates a dislike of being taught,— a dislike unnatural to a healthy child. Grammar and arithmetic, in the hands of an incompetent teacher, are familiar instruments for generating this dislike. Every subject can be presented in such a way as to be received with en- thusiasm by an intelligent child whose mind has not already been clogged or warped. Instruction should not be arti- [41]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
