"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.“


-Quintilian

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

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