We give a child the enormously compendious command, “Don’t be so careless!” without reflecting that it is about as useful and specific an exhortation as if one should cry to us, “Do be more virtuous!”
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- A Montessori Mother. Main text, paragraph beginning We give a child the enormously compendious command, “Don’t be so . https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61045/61045-h/61045-h.htm
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