 | Education - 1833 - 632 pages
...commenced their career as prodigies, and finished by becoming idiots, or persons of very weak minds. '< No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...parents, who exact of their children much intellectual labor, and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and of their health." Hufeland... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 444 pages
...capacity, or connexion with the physical conditions of the human frame. ' No custom,' Tissot remarks, ' is more improper and cruel than that of some parents...progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and health.' It is also the opinion of Hufeland, that by too early study the nervous system acquires a... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1836 - 600 pages
...in well regulated families. Under the third head, Mr G. quoted finely from the great Tissot — • No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...parents who exact of their children much intellectual lubor, and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and health.' Also the opinion of... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1836 - 604 pages
...capacity, or connection with the physical conditions of the humarc frame. ' No custom,' Tissot remarks, 'is more improper and cruel, than that of some parents who exact of their children mucU intellectual labor and great progress in study. It is the tombof their talents and health.' It... | |
 | Education - 1844 - 688 pages
...require from their children too much labour of the intellect, inflict upon them an injury far greater. No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and of their health." He concludes with this advice : " The employments for which your children are destined... | |
 | Amariah Brigham - Child development - 1845 - 206 pages
...require from their children too much labour of the intellect, inflict upon them an injury far greater. No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...progress in study, It is the tomb of their talents and of their health." He concludes with this advice. " The employments for which your children are destined... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - Phrenology - 1857 - 236 pages
...require from their children too much labour of the intellect, inflict upon them far greater injury. No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talent and of their health." " The employments for which your children are destined in after life should... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1858 - 428 pages
...ensue. To borrow the language of an eminent writer on this subject, " No custom is more improper or cruel, than that of some parents who exact of their children much intellectual labor and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and health." The testimony of eminent... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - Phrenology - 1861 - 216 pages
...require from their children too much labour of the intellect, inflict upon them far greater injury. No custom is more improper and cruel than that of...and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talent and of their health." " The employments for which your children are destined in after life should... | |
 | Mathias Roth - Physical education and training - 1879 - 104 pages
...which enfeebles it, and prevents its proper increase and development. No custom is more irrational and cruel than that of some parents who exact of their...progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and of their health." — (TissoT.) "No man can have his mind well trained without his physique — no... | |
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No custom is more improper and cruel than that of some parents, who exact of their children much intellectual labour, and great progress in study, It is the tomb of their talents and of their health. 
