The Education of Children

The Education of Children

If these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browsers default font. The text is based on scans of two different physical copies. In a few cases, the two versions have different spelling, or one has an error where the other does not. These are shown with mouse-hover popups. Typographical errors are similarly marked. All pilcrows in the body text were added by the transcriber (see endnotes). The book was originally (1550) printed together with Richard Sherrys ATreatise of Schemes and Tropes. Since the two texts have no connection except that Sherry is assumed to be the translator, they have been made into separate e-texts. f thou wilt harken vnto me, or rather to Chrisippus, the sharpeste witted of Philosophers, yu shalte prouide yt thyne infante and yonge babe be forthewyth instructed in good learnyng, whylest hys wyt is yet voyde from tares and vices, whilest his age is tender and tractable, and his mind flexible and ready to folowe euery thyng, and also wyl kepe fast good lessons and preceptes. For we rember nothynge so well when we be olde, as those thynges yt we learne in yonge yeres. Diuision of yt confutaci Care not thou for those fooles wordes which chatter that thys age, partly is not hable inough to receiue discipline, & partlye vnmete to abyde the labours of || studies. For fyrst, the beginninges of learning, std specially by memorie, which as I sayd, in yg ones is very holdfast. Secondly because nature hath made vs to knowledge the study of yt thynge can not be to hasty, wherof ye author of al thyng her self hath graffed in vs ye seedes. Beside this some thinges be necessary to be know wh we be swhat elder, which by a cert peculier readines of nature, ye tender age perceiueth both much more quickly, & also more esily th doth ye elder, as ye first beginnings of letters, ye knowledge of tges, tales & fabels of poetes. Finallye, why shulde yt age be thought vnmete to lerning, which is apt to lerne maners? Or what other thinge shuld chyldr do rather wh they be more able to speake, seyng nedes thei muste do sumwhat? How much more profite is it yt age to sporte in letters, then in trifles? Thou wilt say yt it is but of litle value yt is done in those fyrste yeres. Why is it dispised as a smal thing, which is necessary to a very greate matter? And why is yt lucre, be it neuer G.ii. so litle, yet a lucre, dispised of purpose? Now if you oft put a lytle to a litle, there riseth a greate heape. Herewith csider this also, if beyng an infant he lerne smaller thinges, he shalt lerne greter, growynge vpwardes in those yeres, in which those smaller shuld haue ben lerned. Finally whyle he doth these thinges, at ye least he shal be kept fr those fautes, wherwt we se comly yt age to be infected. For nothynge doth better occupy ye whole mynd of man, th studies. Verely this lucre ought not to be set light bi. But if we shuld grate that by these labours ye strength of ye body is sumwhat diminished; yet thinke I this losse well recpensed by winnynge of wyt. For the minde by moderate labours is made more quicke, & lustye. And if ther be any ieopardy in this pointe, it may be auoyded by our diligce. You must haue for this tender age a teacher to enter it by fayre meanes, & not discorage it by foule. And ther be also some things both plesat to be knowen, & as it wer sibbe to childrs wittes, whiche to lerne is rather a play th a labour. Howbeit childehod is not so || weake which eu for thys is ye more mete to take paynes & labour, because they fele not what labour is. Therfore if thou wylte remember how far vnworthy he is to be counted a m which is void of learning, and how stirring the life of man is, how slypper youth is to myschiefe, and mans age howe it desyreth to be occupied, how baren olde age is, and further how few come vnto it, thou wylt not suffer thy yong babe in the whych thou shalte lyue styll as it were borne agayne, to let go any parte of hys tyme vnoccupied, in the whych any thynge maye be gotten that eyther maye do muche good to all ye whole lyfe afterwardes, or kepe it awaye from hurtes, and mischiefes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28338
Author: Erasmus, Desiderius
Release Date: Mar 16, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Sherry, Richard, 1506?-1555?