> We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child’s mind, which..first admit of cultivation.. , the memory and the imagination. The comparing power, the judgment.. ought not to be forcibly excited, as.. in the modern systems of education.. only lead to selfish views, debtor and #creditor principles of #virtue, and an inflated sense of merit...
https://www.circeinstitute.org/2011/11/coleridge-the-education-of-children
#Coleridge #OnEducation and #Debt from #IARichards's #ThePortableColeridge #Education