...judgment. All that we have not at birth, but that we need when we are grown, is given us by education." "Nature would have children be children before they are men. If we wish to pervert this order, we shall produce precocious fruits which will have neither maturity nor...

...tremendously. A quotation or two will illustrate their attitude. The following is from Eousseau's 2mile : "Nature would have children be children before they are men. If we wish to permit this order, we shall produce precocious fruits which will have neither maturity nor...

...Emile, p. 96. age has its own characteristics and needs, and that education should take account of them: Nature would have children be children before they are men. If we attempt to pervert that order, we produce only forward fruit, which has neither richness nor flavor,...

...business to knowright and wrong, to perceive the reason for a man's duties. Nature would have them children before they are men. If we try to invert...produce a forced fruit immature and flavorless, fruit which will be rotten before it is ripe; we shall have young doctors and old children. Childhood has...

...business to know right and wrong, to perceive the reason for a man's duties. Nature would have them children before they are men. If we try to invert...order we shall produce a forced fruit immature and flavourless, fruit which will be rotten before it is ripe; we shall have young doctors and old children....