“And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.”

— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 130
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: "How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it.... And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

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