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The True Secret of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Bernard Curtis
Bernard Curtis
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University of Manchester
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For extravagant young Fellows, that have Liveliness and Spirit, come sometimes to be set right, and so make Able and Great Men: but Dejected Minds, timorous and tame, and Low Spirits, are hardly ever to be raised, and very seldom attain to any thing. To avoid the Danger, that is on either hand, is the great Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.

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Philosophy , Volume 57 , Issue 222 , October 1982 , pp. 515 - 528
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1982

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References

1 1 Locke, ‘Some Thoughts Concerning Education’, in The Educational Writings of John Locke, J. L. Axtell (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 148.

2 Locke, op. cit., 147–148 (Locke's italics).

3 L. W. Beck, The Actor and the Spectator (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975) 130–131.

4 L. W. Beck, op. cit., 136.

5 D. C. Dennett, ‘Mechanism and Responsibility’, in Essays on Freedom of Action, T. Honderich (ed.) (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), 80.