There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book Is it Aristotle Is it Pliny, is it Buffon No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book Is it Aristotle Is it Pliny, is it Buffon No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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