ラッセル英単語・熟語1500 |
It is a remarkable fact that the very things which terrify children at first by their mysterious properties delight them as soon as fear is overcome. Thus mystery becomes an incentive to study, as soon as it ceases to promote superstition. My little boy, at the age of three and a half, spent many hours in absorbed solitary study of a garden syringe, until he had grasped how the water came in and the air came out, and how the converse process occurred.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926
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このように(ラッセルのように)子供を育てていれば、我が子ももっと賢く育ったのではないかと思う親も少なくないのではないでしょうか? まあ、そのためには、親もそれなりに(過去の自分以上に)賢くなければ無理でしょうが・・・。
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