“For a person of understanding, interacting with children is endlessly interesting. Here one sees the book of nature thrown open, stripped of artificiality.”

—  Adolph Freiherr Knigge , book Über den Umgang mit Menschen

Der Umgang mit Kindern hat für einen verständigen Menschen unendlich viel Interesse. Hier sieht er das Buch der Natur in unverfälschter Ausgabe aufgeschlagen.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

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Der Umgang mit Kindern hat für einen verständigen Mann unendlich viel Interesse. Hier sieht er das Buch der Natur in unverfälschter Ausgabe aufgeschlagen.

Zweites Buch, 1. Kapitel, Verschiedenheit des Alters. hg. von Karl Goedeke. 16. Ausgabe. Hannover: Hahn, 1878. Seite 122 http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3A%C3%9Cber_den_Umgang_mit_Menschen.djvu&page=138
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