Adelaide and Theodore Or, Letters on Education, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Adelaide and Theodore Or, Letters on Education, Vol. 2: Containing; All the Principles Relative to Three Different Plans of Education; To That of Princes, and to Those of Young Persons of Both Sexes I attributed therefore his laziness to some particular fault of education, and soon discovered it. The Prince´s apartment was filled with toys; the child in the midst of all this treasure not knowing how to chuse, and desirous to enjoy all, in reality enjoyed none; and was accustomed to inconstancy, which always fatigues and never satisfies. The young prince was likewise attended by five or six low people, whose sole business was to invent amusements, and fetch any play-thing he wanted; or pick up his shuttlecock, ball, &c. The Prince was so accustomed to this servility, that if what he held happened to fall, he never made the least motion to take it up, knowing six persons were ready to strive who should do it for him. I presently banished all these slaves, and replaced them by one child of his own age, fending away at the same time all these toys, reserving only what were really necessary for his amusement. At first he looked on this as a barbarous reformation; but in a very short time he lost his indolence, and assumed all the activity which was natural to him. We had a very serious discourse the day before yesterday. I entered his apartment at eight o´clock, dismissed his valets, and embraced him, saying, you are this day thirteen; your education cannot be finished, nor your understanding, or character formed, but still you are no longer a child; and the rank you bear will henceforward make all your actions interesting. Behold, my Lord, here are eight volumes of my writing; they are the journals of your childhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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