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On health.

Locke, John

Pages: 61 –94

How necessary health is to our business and happiness; and how requisite a strong constitution, able to endure hardships and fatigue, is to one that will make any figure in the world, is too obvious to need any proof. The consideration of health is not what a physician ought to do with a sick...

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On mental culture.

Locke, John

Pages: 95 –109

Due care being had to keep the body in strength and vigour, so that it may be able to obey and execute the orders of the mind; the next and principal business is, to set the mind right, that on all occasions it may be disposed to consent to nothing but what may be suitable to the dignity and...

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On punishments.

Locke, John

Pages: 110 –115

This being laid down in general, as the course which ought to be taken, it is fit we now come to consider the parts of the discipline to be used, a little more particularly. I have spoken so much of carrying a strict hand over children, that perhaps I shall be suspected of not considering enough,...

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On rewards.

Locke, John

Pages: 115 –125

Beating and all sorts of slavish and corporal punishments are not the discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise, good, and ingenious men. On the other side, to flatter children by rewards of things that are pleasant to them is as carefully to be avoided. To make a...

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Rules.

Locke, John

Pages: 126 –132

One fault in the ordinary method of education is the charging of children's memories, upon all education, with rules and precepts that they often do not understand, and constantly as soon forget as given. Let your rules be as few as possible and rather fewer than more than seem absolutely...

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Behaviour of children.

Locke, John

Pages: 132 –138

Manners, as they call it, about which children are so often perplexed, and have so many goodly exhortations made them, are rather to be learnt by example than rules. Then children, if kept out of ill company, will take a pride to behave themselves prettily, after the fashion of others, perceiving...

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On the advantages of a home education.

Locke, John

Pages: 138 –148

This chapter focuses on the advantages of a home education. Locke argues that a knowledge of languages in public schools is purchased too dearly at the sacrifice of innocence and virtue. Association with bad boys produces coarseness, not manliness; this and a knowledge of the world an able...

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On faults which should not be punished in children.

Locke, John

Pages: 148 –173

All the actions of childishness and unfashionable carriage, and whatever time and age will of itself be sure to reform, being exempt from the discipline of the rod, there will not be so much need of beating children, as is generally made use of. In this chapter, Locke suggests that there should...

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On the necessary qualities of a private tutor.

Locke, John

Pages: 173 –193

If a tutor can be got, that thinking himself in the father's place, charged with his care, and relishing these things, will at the beginning apply himself to put them in practice, he will afterwards find his work very easy; and you will, I guess, have your son in a little time a greater...

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On the familiarity of parents with their children.

Locke, John

Pages: 193 –199

The familiarity of parents with their children should increase with the age and merits of the child; it is an aid to his education. Trust in money matters and business promotes the child's self-esteem and love towards his father. Temperate advice and confidential consultation open the child's...

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