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"What we make children love and desire is more important than what we make them learn. "
When I was a little girl (oh, six most charming words! ) -- it is not necessary to name the year, but it was so long ago that children were still reminded that they should be seen and not heard, and also that they could eat what was set before them or go without (two maxims that suggest a hoary antiquity of time not easily measured by the senses), -- when I was a little girl, I had the great good fortune to live in a country village.