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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“A kind rebuke, like fresh air in a fainting fit, is calculated to act upon a young mind with more effect, than stimulants of the greatest power”
Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools, reason 10 (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
Rush applies the physician's rule that a remedy must suit the excitability of the patient to the governing of children.
Citation: "A kind rebuke, like fresh air in a fainting fit, is calculated to act upon a young mind with more effect, than stimulants of the greatest power" — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools, reason 10 (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
