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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![ity should first be aroused. The preparation of the mind for acquiring or cultivating knowledge is far more valuable than packing it with facts. The process of education,—as I have elsewhere said,—is not like packing things into a portmanteau, but like stocking a pond with fish. The healthy mind is itself alive and active; and if time be given, the produce of the pond, as tested by fisherman or examiner, may far ex- ceed the original supply. Another thing the teacher should realize is the difference between the real and the conventional. Names are conventional, weights and meas- ures are conventional, many of the [46]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
