“If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.”

— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 71
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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