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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Education 127
Small children, too, must learn not to touch
what belongs to other people. If every time
anything is touched without permission,
children lose their freedom of action one way
or another, they soon learn that a condition
of their free action is not to injure others.
It is quite true, as a young mother re-
marked, that empty Japanese rooms are ideal
places in which to bring up children. Our
modern crowded rooms are, so far as child-
ren are concerned, to be condemned. During
the year in which the real education of the
child is proceeding by touching, tasting, biting,
feeling, and so on, every moment he is
hearing the cry, " Let it alone." For the tem-
perament of the child as well as for the develop-
ment of his powers, the best thing is a large,
light nursery, adorned with handsome litho-
graphs, wood-cuts, and so on, provided with
some simple furniture, where he may enjoy
the fullest freedom of movement. But if the
child is there with his parents and is disobedi-
ent, a momentary reprimand is the best means
to teach him to reverence the greater world in
which the will of others prevails, the world in
which the child certainly can make a place for
himself but must also learn that every place
occupied by him has its limits.

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