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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![in phenomena, and let them find their way through; assisted, but not car- ried. Let them observe and think, and themselves try to explain. The effort to explain even the simplest thing is wholly good, both for teach- ers and taught. And, for taught, a self-devised incomplete explanation is better than a more elaborate one which they do not perceive the need for. For a time the incomplete ex- planation can be left; then holes can be picked in it,—if possible by things themselves,—and so it can be grad- ually improved, until ultimately a more perfect model of an explanation may be told them; but not before its merits can be to some extent appre- ciated. [43]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
