Fireside Education
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217476126
Paperback|9780217476126
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If this then be true, ?if education forms individual character, ?it is important for every parent to inquire himself, and with special reference to his own children, at what period of life it operates with most force, and what are its most efficient engines. THE BASIS OF CHARACTER IS USUALLY LAID IN EARLY LIFE. It is obvious that the faculties of man, commencing at birth, proceed in their development through several stages before they reach maturity. These are usually denominated infancy, childhood, and youth. We may consider these as embracing the first seventeen years of life, and remark, that during this period the foundation of the physical, mental, and moral character is usually laid. This fact arises from the susceptibility of our nature during this portion of our existence. We are then like plaster, prepared by the moulder, soft and impressible, taking forms and images from everything we may chance to touch. But as this plaster soon grows hard, and retains ever after the traces made upon it, so the impressions made upon youth become indurated in manhood. The imitative and reflective tendencies of childhood and youth, operating on their plastic nature, also render this a decisive period of life in the formation of character. Children mark the peculiarities of those around, and incline to copy them. They are also as mirrors, catching reflections on every hand, and often retaining traces of the images casually thrown upon them, for the remainder of life. I am aware that there is a areat difference in the character of children as to their ductility. Some are facile in their dispositions; others are more obstinate and unyielding. But these diversities do not affect the substantial truth of the remark, that the general outline of every man's character is formed by educati..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217476126 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217476120 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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