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On Education.
ON EDUCATION .
THE true end of Education is to give } r oung persons such _ . ^ principles as may mott easily conduct them to happiness , and enable them to distinguish false pleasure and happiness from the true . It is a usual comparison that the mind of Children is like wax , capible ^ of any impression ; or like paper , on which we may write what sentiments we please ; which Don Snavedra , a learned has
Spaniard , improved , in his emblems for the institution of a Christian Prince , by representing a canvas stretched on a frame , and read y to be painted , with this motto , Ad Omnia ; apt alike to all ( hir-gs . Am and sciences are too often mistaken for all that is necessary to fern- a ma' ; whereas one may be a very ill and unhappy man With all '
the learning in the world . Youthought to be perfectly inni-ucted jn he notions of ri ght and wrong ; to have true ideas ol ( lu . ie Miings they are mort likely to tweet with in the world , and be df-eriL-d to in-j proper ends to which their actions ought to tend . Arts .: ' . •' . scien : c-s wni then iu ' . eeii become beneficial and ornamental , v . hi : . ' ¦ otherw :- ? nu ' iu not only useless but dangerous
g prove . _ They-. ue tuerefoie ; . ¦ -. wide , cf the maik , who make the education of youth so laborious and abstruse a thing ; whereas there is little more to be done than to inculcate true notions of things ; not as chMv . rtensed m this or that language , or defined in such or such hoc !; s , but as they are in nature , unci as they are likely to experience them in the course of life .
But then , this knowledge is not to be wrought into them b y chiding , and harsh usage ; on the contrary , they are to be treated tenderly ; we must descend to their capacities , and lead them gently step by step , and try a , proper indulgence render a proper restraint more easy .
Parents ought also to take great care that their children never hear or see base or flagitious things . Young minds receive the impression of whatever passes before them , not only more readily but retain it longer than at any other ttage of life ; and this may , perhaps , hare been the ' reason why the children of so many princes and great men , seeing the licentiousness of a court , have proved tyrants and debauchees . Nayan age has been so debauchedthat
, , to be vicious and effeminate has given the best title to preferment : thus , after the death of Nero , the strongest party in the palace were for exalting Ctho to the empire , because pf the similarity of their manners . But the true and solid basis , both of our conduct , and bringing up our offspring , is Religion ; for though their passions should hap-r
pen to betray them into some extravagances ; just religious principles are most likely to retrieve and establish them in that course of morality and virtue , which must render life easy , honourable , and useful , and themselves worthy of those glorious eiidpwpients which they have received from their Creator .
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On Education.
ON EDUCATION .
THE true end of Education is to give } r oung persons such _ . ^ principles as may mott easily conduct them to happiness , and enable them to distinguish false pleasure and happiness from the true . It is a usual comparison that the mind of Children is like wax , capible ^ of any impression ; or like paper , on which we may write what sentiments we please ; which Don Snavedra , a learned has
Spaniard , improved , in his emblems for the institution of a Christian Prince , by representing a canvas stretched on a frame , and read y to be painted , with this motto , Ad Omnia ; apt alike to all ( hir-gs . Am and sciences are too often mistaken for all that is necessary to fern- a ma' ; whereas one may be a very ill and unhappy man With all '
the learning in the world . Youthought to be perfectly inni-ucted jn he notions of ri ght and wrong ; to have true ideas ol ( lu . ie Miings they are mort likely to tweet with in the world , and be df-eriL-d to in-j proper ends to which their actions ought to tend . Arts .: ' . •' . scien : c-s wni then iu ' . eeii become beneficial and ornamental , v . hi : . ' ¦ otherw :- ? nu ' iu not only useless but dangerous
g prove . _ They-. ue tuerefoie ; . ¦ -. wide , cf the maik , who make the education of youth so laborious and abstruse a thing ; whereas there is little more to be done than to inculcate true notions of things ; not as chMv . rtensed m this or that language , or defined in such or such hoc !; s , but as they are in nature , unci as they are likely to experience them in the course of life .
But then , this knowledge is not to be wrought into them b y chiding , and harsh usage ; on the contrary , they are to be treated tenderly ; we must descend to their capacities , and lead them gently step by step , and try a , proper indulgence render a proper restraint more easy .
Parents ought also to take great care that their children never hear or see base or flagitious things . Young minds receive the impression of whatever passes before them , not only more readily but retain it longer than at any other ttage of life ; and this may , perhaps , hare been the ' reason why the children of so many princes and great men , seeing the licentiousness of a court , have proved tyrants and debauchees . Nayan age has been so debauchedthat
, , to be vicious and effeminate has given the best title to preferment : thus , after the death of Nero , the strongest party in the palace were for exalting Ctho to the empire , because pf the similarity of their manners . But the true and solid basis , both of our conduct , and bringing up our offspring , is Religion ; for though their passions should hap-r
pen to betray them into some extravagances ; just religious principles are most likely to retrieve and establish them in that course of morality and virtue , which must render life easy , honourable , and useful , and themselves worthy of those glorious eiidpwpients which they have received from their Creator .