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154 The Century of the Child
other many mistakes of education, viz., the
infinite trouble taken in trying to do away with
a fault which disappears by itself. People
take infinite pains to teach small children to
speak distinctly who, if left to themselves,
would learn it by themselves, provided they
were always spoken to distinctly. This same
principle holds good of numerous other things,
in children’s attitude and behaviour, that can
be left simply to a good example and to time.
One’s influence should be used in impressing
upon the child habits for which a foundation
must be laid at the very beginning of his
life.
There is another still more unfortunate mis-
take, the mistake of correcting and judging
by an external effect produced by the act, by
the scandal it occasions in the environment.
Children are struck for using oaths and im-
proper words the meaning of which they do not
understand; or if they do understand, the re-
sult of strictness is only that they go on keep-
ing silence in matters in which sincerity
towards those who are bringing them up is of
the highest importance. The very thing the
child is allowed to do uncorrected at home, is
not seldom corrected if it happens away from
home. ,So the child gets a false idea that it
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