The cultivation of wide sympathies, given the instinctive germ, is mainly an intellectual matter : it depends upon the right direction of attention, and the realization of facts which militarists and authoritarians suppress. Take, for example, Tolstoy’s description of Napoleon going round the battlefield of Austerlitz after the victory. Most histories leave the battlefield as soon as the battle is over ; by the simple expedient of lingering on it for another twelve hours a completely different picture of war is produced. This is done, not by suppressing facts, but by giving more facts. And what applies to battles applies equally to other forms of cruelty. In all cases it should be quite unnecessary to point the moral ; the right telling of the story should be sufficient. Do not moralize, but let the facts produce their own moral in the child’s mind.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, Pt. 2： Education of character, chap. 11: Affection and Sympathy
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