TO prohibit women entirely from learning is treating them with the same indignity that Mahomet did, who, to render them voluptuous, denied them souls; and […]
CHAP. I. Of the Importance of the Education of Daughters. NOTHING is more neglected than the education of daughters; custom, and the caprice of mothers, […]
CHAP. II. The Inconveniences of the common Methods of Education. IT is owing to ignorance that a girl is weary of herself, and knows not […]
CHAP. IV. Cautions concerning Imitation. THE ignorance of children, whose brain hath as yet taken no impression, and who have no formed habits, is what […]
CHAP. IV. Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. I AM persuaded it would be right to make frequent use of such […]
Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. NOW, though we ought not to make a practice of threatning and never punishing, lest […]
Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. THE simple pleasures are less poignant, less affecting it is true, the others transport the […]
Of the use of History for Children. CHILDREN are very fond of strange stories: it is common to see them in high delight, or in […]
The Vanity of Beauty and of Dress. THERE is nothing we ought so much to guard against as vanity in young ladies. They come into […]
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