CHAPTER V

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An adequate conception of children necessary--All action comes from the ideas held--The child’s estate higher than ours--Methods of undermining personality-- Fear--Love--“Suggestion”--Influence--Methods of stultifying intellectual and moral growth--The desires--Of approbation--Of emulation--Of ambition--Of society--The natural desire of knowledge--Definite progress, a condition of education--Doctrine of equal opportunities for all, dangerous--But a liberal education the possibility for all.