The Rod, which is the only Instrument of Government that Tutors generally know, or ever think of, is the most unfit of any to be us'd in Education.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Corporal punishment

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John Locke

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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Treatise

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Political literature Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1693 1690s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 46.

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Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 46.

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