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Inattention of children to the counsels and directions

Defective home government. Faults of guardians & parents.
Jealousy, envy, suspicion -- Irreverence -- Parents compelled to speak once & again
Jealousy on account of the attention of others to their children.
Jealous of the deference due to themselves by their children.
John -- He must increase -- I must decrease

Envious of the superiority of their children because it
secures to their superior education gives power secures respect command cities children the attention respect influence
and admiration of persons without regard to age, or
condition

Suspicion of their motives and purposes because acting from more en-
larged motives a higher plain of duty
seeing farther and wider
thinking more deeply ---
from a greater variety of
motion and causes.
Parents and guardians are human.
It is acknowledged that children are full of faults.

A great difficulty in governing scholars in the school
room arises from the habits of children engendered under a
bad home government. It is There that character is moulded
for the most part.
Ox team yields to the rail Road [railroad] - The Mail coach to
the telegraph

Lock up a child at home all of ear-
liest and most susceptible period of life, and for three fifths
of the time from 7 to 13 or 14, often with ignorant, unlet
tered [unlettered], worldly, selfish and sometimes wicked and vicious
parents, such as were spoiled as when children, and who as
parents are willful, irritable, exacting. As parents they
exhibit the results of neglected or exceedingly defective
education, in the harming of the families. It is no fancy sketch. It is a sad and
disagreable [disagreeable] picture, but is truthful from life. Hun
dreds of parents whose literary attainments scarcely com-
pass embrace the teachings of the Primary Schools, the elements
Ashamed to confess it, they claim assume a knowledge they
do not possess. If they had the grace to own it and would set about
improvement that were something in their favor.
Much is attributable to the difference
between the mode of teaching now, and that of half or quar-
ter of century ago. Methods improve -- advance -- as writing bookmaking
printing and traveling communicating. Then it was irregular rude general,

[vertically in left margin:]
The defects of home government -- manifest in the school room -- exhibited there -- Teache [Teacher] speaks
once _ twice _ etc -- receives no attention -- No respect -- The first thing at home Attention -- respect -- obe
dience the 2nd -- 3rd last immediate
N Websters view
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