“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.”

—  John Locke , book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 35
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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