Therefore, the selection of their first lesson-books is a matter of grave importance, because it rests with these to give children the idea that knowledge is supremely attractive and that reading is delightful. Once the habit of reading his lesson-books with delight is set up in a child, his education is not complete, but ensured; he will go on for himself in spite of the obstructions which school too commonly throws in his way.
Home Education, 1935
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