Parent And Child, a Treatise On the Moral And Religious Education of Children
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To correct childish grammatical errors prematurely is worrying and [SO] PREPARATION FOR LITERATURE most unwise; it deprives a child of naturalness, and adults of some pleasure. If small twins, for in- stance, having a joint birthday, are asked whose birthday it is; and if after looking at each other for a mo- ment they simultaneously respond "we's," any one who would attempt to correct the statement into ac- cordance with the rules of English grammar would be guilty of a minor kind of blasphemy.... This parable summarizes all I have to say on that head. So again, in emphasizing truth of statement in its due time and place, it may be thought that I am against fairy tales. It is possible, I think, to cultivate them to excess; but to ex- [51] PARENT AND CHILD elude them and forbid children to hear the old immortal stories, — part of the tradition of the race, — ^would be a literary crime. Appropriate dealing with different categories of things is largely an affair of moods. I want to emphasize this.
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