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Education 13 3
receive some small remuneration. But small
occasional services, whether volunteered or
asked for by others, should never be rewarded.
Only readiness to serve, without payment, de-
velops the joy of generosity. When the child
wants to give away something, people should
not make a pretence of receiving it. This
produces the false conception in his mind that
the pleasure of being generous can be had for
nothing. At every step the child should be
allowed to meet the real experiences of life;
the thorns should never be plucked from his
roses. This is what is least understood in
present-day training. Thus we see reasonable
methods constantly failing. People find
themselves forced to " afflictive " methods
which stand in no relation with the realities of
life. I mean, above all, what are still called
means of education, instead of means of tor-
ture,—^blows.
Many people of to-day defend blows, main-
taining that they are milder means of punish-
ment than the natural consequences of an
act; that blows have the strongest effect on
the memory, which effect becomes permanent
through association of ideas.
But what kinds of association? Is it not
with physical pain and shame? Gradually, step
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