“The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.”

—  John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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