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Education 167
the thermometer out of the window and begin
with a sensible course of toughening; teach the
child to know and to bear natural pain.
Corporal punishment must be done away with
not because it is painful but because it is pro-
foundly immoral and hopelessly unsuitable.
Repress the egoistic demands of the child when
he interferes with the work or rest of others;
never let him either by caresses or by nagging
usurp the rights of grown people; take care
that the servants do not work against what
the parents are trying to insist on in this and
in other matters.
We must begin in doing for the child in
certain ways a thousand times more and in
others a hundred thousand times less. A be-
ginning must be made in the tenderest age
to establish the child’s feeling for nature. Let
him live year in and year out in the same coun-
try home; this is one of the most significant,
and profound factors in training. It can be
held to even where it is now neglected. The
same thing holds good of making a choice
library, commencing with the first years of
life; so that the child will have, at different
periods of his life, suitable books for each age
;
not as is now often the case, get quite spoilt
by the constant change of summer excursions,
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