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I40 The Century of the Child
flogging, is due to the fact that most educa-
tors have only a very elementary conception
of their work. They should constantly keep
before them the feelings and impressions of
their own childhood in dealing with children.
The most frequent as well as the most danger-
ous of the numerous mistakes made in hand-
ling children is that people do not remember
how they felt themselves at a similar age, that
they do not regard and comprehend the feel-
ings of the child from their own past point of
view. The adult laughs or smiles in remem-
bering the punishments and other things
which caused him in his childhood anxious
days or nights, which produced the silent tor-
ture of the child’s heart, infinite despondency,
burning indignation, lonely fears, outraged
sense of justice, the terrible creations of his
imagination, his absurd shame, his unsatis-
fied thirst for joy, freedom, and tenderness.
Lacking these beneficent memories, adults con-
stantly repeat the crime of destroying the
childhood of the new generation,—the only
time in life in which the guardian of education
can really be a kindly providence. So strongly
do I feel that the unnecessary sufferings of
children are unnatural as well as ignoble that
I experience physical disgust in touching the
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