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238 The Century of the Child
never learns to know another being entirely,
not even when that being has received its life
from the other, not even when that life is daily
renewed by the other being, in order to reach
the full happiness of spiritual motherhood. It
has been well said that as people regard the
birth of a child as the sign of physical ma-
turity, the education of a child is regarded as
a sign of psychical maturity. But through
lack in psychological insight, most parents re-
main their whole life immature. They can
have the best principles, the most zealous fi-
delity to duty, combined with absolute blind-
ness to the nature of children, the real causes
of their actions, and the different combinations
of different characteristics.
Take some examples of the worst blunders
of this type; the small child is often called
vain who studies, full of interest, his own
identity in the glass; the child who, from fear
or confusion at a hard or incomprehensible
question, does not answer or obey is called
stubborn; the child that cannot explain his
actions in those small things which adults every
day entirely forget is looked upon as lying;
and even before the child has a conception of
the right of property, when he pilfers, he is
called thievish. The child who says that he
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