CHAPTER I

DOCILITY AND AUTHORITY IN THE HOME AND SCHOOL

Better relations between children and their elders—The elder generation of parents, autocratic—Arbitrary rule not always a failure—But truer educational thought results in worthier character—Doctrine of the infallible reason—Leads to the dethronement of authority—Authority not inherent, but deputed—‘Quick as thought’—The notion of the finality of human reason intolerable—Authority and docility, fundamental principles—Work of rationalistic philosophers, inevitable—Authority, vested in the office, 1

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