War and Peace
” Children should be taught as little as possible,” he declares in so many words, for it is much worse that they should get “educational indigestion and come to detest education.” He would take especial care to free the children of the well- to-do from the parasitic tendencies of their position. They should learn to do things for themselves; and not to have everything done for them. The first condition of a good education, he says, is that a child should know that all he uses does not fall from heaven ready-made, but is produced by other people’s labour. He should be ashamed to have his boots cleaned by servants, “who do it not out of love for him, but for some other reason quite unintelligible to him.” “If he is not ashamed, and if he continues to use them, that is the very worst commencement of an education, and leaves the deepest traces for his whole life. “
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