I Could Not Think Without Writing.

Children Have Real Understanding Only Of That Which They Invent Themselves, And Each Time That We Try To Teach Them Too Quickly, We Keep Them From Reinventing It Themselves.

The Relations Between Parents And Children Are Certainly Not Only Those Of Constraint. There Is Spontaneous Mutual Affection, Which From The First Prompts The Child To Acts Of Generosity And Even Of Self-sacrifice, To Very Touching Demonstrations Which Are In No Way Prescribed. And Here No Doubt Is The Starting Point For That Morality Of Good Which We Shall See Developing Alongside Of The Morality Of Right Or Duty, And Which In Some Persons Completely Replaces It.

The Majority Of Parents Are Poor Psychologists And Give Their Children The Most Questionable Moral Trainings. It Is Perhaps In This Domain That One Realized Most How Keenly How Immoral It Can Be To Believe Too Much In Morality, And How Much More Precious Is A Little Humanity Than All The Rules In The World.

I Could Not Think Without Writing.

The Child Is A Realist In Every Domain Of Thought, And It Is Therefore Natural That In The Moral Sphere He Should Lay More Stress On The External, Tangible Element Than On The Hidden Motive.