Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language — except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of their Mothers and Nurses — and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science. Already methinks I discern a weakness in the grasp of mathematical truth at the present time as compared with the more robust intellect of our ancestors three hundred years ago.


Chapter 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) - PART I: THIS WORLD

Edwin Abbott Abbott Quotes

Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially...

Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially...

Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially...

Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially...