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To the several perversities of the day a man should always oppose only the great masses of universal history.
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No one can live much with children without finding that they always react to any outward influence upon them.
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With any specially childish nature the reaction is even passionate, while its action is energetic.
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That is why children’s lives are a series of refined judgments, not to say prejudices; and to efface a rapid but partial perception in order to make way for a more general one, time is necessary. To bear this in mind is one of the teacher’s greatest duties.