“The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is… carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. …Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.”

— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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