Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.
John LockeEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
John LockeThe business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
John LockeIt is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
John Locke