Some Thoughts Concerning Education

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for anything else."

"The great mistake I have observed in people's breeding their children has been, that this has not been taken care enough of in its due season; that the mind has not been made obedient to discipline, and pliant to reason, when it was most tender, most easy to be bowed."

"Thus children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters; be taught to read, without perceiving it to be anything but a sport, and play themselves into that which others are whipped for."

"Instead of alluring them with the hopes of toys and fruit, let them have commendation, if they do well; let them also be made sensible of the disgrace of having done amiss."

"Reading and writing and learning I ordinarily call learning, but if you will take it in the sense truly meant by books, that is, to teach him to read well, and understand what he reads, I only say that it is a small and inconsiderable part of education."

"He that has not a mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry."

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