The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    the other hand, is the degenerative effect of city life, to which Fothergill has drawn at- tention in his statistical researches in respect , to London and Paris. The training of the youthful mind is, I take it, one of the most difficult problems that can well be imagined ; for it presupposes, not only a high degree of knowledge and of what Sir Herbert Maxwell has recently described as intellectual detachment, but of infinite tact and a thorough understanding of the child's innermost nature. Such qualities for dealing with children do not come of themselves; they require much thought and trouble. It is needless, I trust, to recall what has been said of the influence of nurses, gover- nesses and teachers for good and for evil in this connection; at best it is in every case a risk of the gravest nature to delegate the ed- ucational and directing powers of the mother to any stranger, especially during the earliest years. The plan to be followed in the endeavor