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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill
Education, Children, Teaching

...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society

John Stuart Mill
Children, Mind, Training
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.233, Hackett Publishing

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

John Stuart Mill
Children, Animal, Favour
John Stuart Mill, Stephen Nathanson (1875). “Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.291, Hackett Publishing

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