Excerpt from The Introductory Discourse and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August, 1833: Including a List of Officers and Members
Parents may also learn a useful lesson from these facts, by which they and their children would be spared no small amount of the mental irritation, occasroned in the family, by the impracticable attempts to detain their little ones in one place to keep them still, to make them behave (to use the common parental phrase) like little ladies and gentlemen to the souring of much good temper, and the no small an noyance of both parties. A View of the condition of the brain and nervous system at this tender age, would convince them, that, when they thus attempt to force nature, they aim at an impossibility; that the child, like the bird of the air, is all nerve; and that it must move or die. The parental tyranny So often exercised in this particular, and which sometimes does not stop short of a smart box upon the ear that most un physiological and unphilosophical of all punishments, 18 a de oisive evidence, if not of a hard heart, of a hardened brain and is as inconsistent With physiological principle as With common sense.
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