Saturday, January 13, 2018

Teach Children Self-Control

Children should be instructed in the art of self-government.  They should be taught, as far as possible, to govern their thoughts; to use their wills to be determined by the light of their understandings, and not by headstrong and foolish humor; they should learn to keep the lower powers of nature under command of their reason; they should be instructed to regulate their senses, their imagination, their appetites, and their passions.

Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: A Supplement to Logic, pg.314

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