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Some Thoughts Concerning Education Quotes

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Source:Section 32-35. Self-denial must be taught early
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John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education Quotes
  • Book: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
  • Writer: John Locke
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1693
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