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Excerpt from The True Principle of Education: The Law of Nature, the Law of Mental Development; A New View of the End of Juvenile Culture, Especially as Regards the Female Mind The position of many pupils in school is very un-s comfortable, often painful and trying in the extreme. Sometimes this is their own fauA school should be a nursery of mind, in the widest sense of the term; and its leading object should be, first of all, to furnish aids and facilities for the most perfect health and growth of mind. Everything else should yield to this object. Certain it is, that that which is not adapted to promote mental health and growth, can have but comparatively little efficacy in promoting any other desirable object in education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.