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the hearts of men

by h harold fielding

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...studied how it is that children form their ideas of the world, of what it is, of what has to be done in it, of how to do it, will recognise all that this means ; for children obtain their ideas of everything, not from their lessons nor their books nor their teachers, but from their associates. A teacher may teach, but a boy does not believe. He believes not what he is told, but what he sees. He forms to himself rules of conduct modelled on the observed conduct of other people. Their ideas pene- trate his, and he absorbs and adapts them to his own 22 THE HEARTS OF MEN. Wants. In a school with other boys, or where a boy has as playfellows boys older than himself, this works out right. The knowledge and ideas of the great world filter gradually down. Young men gain it from older men, the young men pass it to the elder boys, and the bigger to the smaller, each adapting it as he takes. Thus is wisdom made digestible by the many processes it passes through, and the child can take it and find...

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