Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Hannah More

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

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Original sin Human nature

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Hannah More

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Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Writer

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Citation

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 2.

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