Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 · Plutarch
BY SIMON FORD, D.D.
Effect on children of impurity in the parents, 3; of intemperance in the parents, 4. Instruction and training necessary, 5. Training must assist nature, 5. Defective natural parts may be improved by instruction, 5, 6. Diligent effort may supply native deficiencies, 6. A virtuous character partly the effect of custom and habit, 7. Mothers should nurse their own children, 7, 8. Manners of children to be well-formed from the beginning, 8. Care to be taken of their associates, 9. Teachers of children to be carefully chosen, 9, 10. Moral character of teachers to be carefully regarded, 10, 11. Unhappy consequences of the ill-training of children, 11, 12. A good education preferable to the gifts of fortune, 12, 13. Learning better than bodily strength, 13. Children should be trained to think before they speak, 14, 15. A pompous style of speech to be avoided, 16. Tameness of speech to be avoided, 16. The principal study of youth should be philosophy, 17, 18. Bodily exercise not to be neglected, 19. Gymnastic and military exercises, 19. Corporal and disgraceful punishments not to be used, 20. Motives to be addressed to the understanding and conscience, 20. Severe tasks not to be imposed on children, 21. Relaxation to be allowed them, 21. Memory to be cultivated, 22. A courteous manner of speaking to be inculcated. 22. Self-control to be taught, 23, 24. Restraint of the tongue, 23, 24. Sotades punished for free speech, 25. Severity to children unwise, 26. Young men to be restrained from vicious company, 28, 29. Flatterers to be avoided, 29. Allowance should be made for youthful impetuosity, 30. Marriage a security for young men, 31. Fathers not to be severe and harsh, but examples to their children, 30, 31.
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