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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Education 171
water, clothing and bodily movement, are con-
cerned, can be made the foundations for the
child’s conceptions of morality. He cannot be
made to learn soon enough that bodily health
and beauty must be regarded as high ethical
characteristics, and that what is injurious to
health and beauty must be regarded as a hate-
ful act. In this sphere, children must be kept
entirely independent of custom by allowing
the exception to every rule to have its valid
place. The present anxious solicitude that
children should eat when the clock strikes, that
they get certain food at fixed meals, that they
be clothed according to the degree of tempera-
ture, that they go to bed when the clock
strikes, that they be protected from every drop
of unboiled water and every extra piece of
candy, this makes them nervous, irritable
slaves of habit. A reasonable toughening
process against the inequalities, discomforts,
and chances of life, constitutes one of the most
important bases of joy of living and of
strength of temper. In this case too, the be-
haviour of the person who gives the training,
is the best means of teaching children to smile
at small contretemps^ things which would
throw a cloud over the sun, if one got into the
habit of treating them as if they were of great

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