How to Make Yourself Hated by Your Children (1814)

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I was digging through a volume of The Emporium of Arts, and Sciences (Philadelphia, 1813-14), extracting the references for a long and fine article on the still-relatively-new steam engine (it runs 222 pages through several sections of the 448-page volume II) I stumbled upon this collection of pearls on how to raise children. Some of it is pretty good, some not, and some just compeltely and necessarily outdated and dusty and shrivelled and gone. But the first part, the very first bit, the very first sentence, is pretty much the whole enchilada. It was written by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, who was the founder of the Schnepfenthal Institution, a new approach to education and a certainly-atypical school for the late 18th century.  

 

 

[I own this volume though I've used the scans from the Internet Archive rather than spread the big-but-not-undelicate volume on the scanner.]