EDUCATION IN INFANCY
When do you suppose the education of a child begins? At six months old it can answer smile wit> smile and impatience with impatience. It can observe, enjoy and suffer acutely, and, in a measure, intelligently. Do you suppose it makes no difference to it that the order of the house is perfect and quiet, the faces of its father and mother full of peace, their soft voices familiar to its ear, and even those of strangers, loving? Or that it is tossed from arm to arm among hard, or reckless, or vainminded persons, in the gloom of a vicious household, or the confusion of a gay one?
The moral disposition is, I doubt not, greatly determined in those first speechless years. I believe especially that quiet, and the withdrawal of objects likely to distract, by amusing the child, so as to let it fix its attention undisturbed on every visible least thing in its domain is essential to the formation of some of the best powers of thought.—Ruskin.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 5
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