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Home education. By the author of Natural history of enthusiasm
Home education By the author of Natural history of enthusiasm Author:Isaac Taylor 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: CHAPTER III. FAMILY LOVE AND ORDER. Again I request the reader to bear in mina, that, if I advert in this volume to subjects properly belonging to moral an... more »d religious treatment, I do not profess either to advance the principles on which such treatment should rest, or to illustrate the application of them. And yet something must be said with the view of setting before the reader that Idea of the domestic system which is present to my own mind, and which I consider as inseparably connected with the processes and the exercises of intellectual culture. Fully to develop the mental faculties apart from family felicity —apart from pure enjoyments—apart from love, and subordination, is what I cannot so much as conceive of as practicable; nor is there an exercise so abstruse as that I can imagine it to be prosperously conducted by the stern and cold-hearted teacher of a depressed and reluctant learner. The words Love and Order, although not synonymous, are absolutely inseparable in relation to the domestic system. At school, no doubt, there may beorder, where there is little or no love; but it is frightful to think of a home of which the same might be said. And, if in a family we must not look for order without love, so neither can love exist, or be preserved, without order: and by Order, I mean, absolute government, and perfect obedience. If there be not, in the natural dispositions of parents and children, enough kindly warmth of feeling to effect implicit obedience by the means of the gentle affections, and without frequent recurrence to measures of severity, home education had better not be attempted. Children may be governed at school by motives of fear, without entirely depraving their sentiments; because school is not their All ; and they have still a home, and a sphe...« less