The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep … - S. I. Hayakawa

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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

S. I. Hayakawa

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i. e. , believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible. . . that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

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