Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrens hands.
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.
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