CMP Review 2025-04-21

April 21, 2025

“We of the P.N.E.U. do not speak without knowledge; we have practised our doctrine for a score of years with satisfactory results. We find that children brought up largely on books compare very well indeed with others who have been educated on a few books and many lectures; they love books which are books, and they love knowledge for its own sake. They have generous enthusiasms, keen sympathies, a wide outlook, and sound judgment, because they are treated from the first as beings ‘of wide discourse, looking before and after.’ We speak that we do know in urging parents not to be content with any method of education for their children which does not include a liberal and wise use, at first hand, of the best books.” (C. Mason, “Opinions and Principles”, PR21, p. 33)

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