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Re: Why Can't Students Read and Follow Directions? (Was "Why..") FORWARD from Donald Slavin.



I fufpect my ftudents would fee this paffage as unfpeakable.

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, brian whatcott wrote:

If Joseph Priestley LLD, FRS had been present to lecture, you might
have heard something like this:

[Of Submission to Authority, section VIII, 1778]

"It is of great importance that children and young perfons be
accuftomed to fubmit, without difficulty and reluctance,
to proper authority, by which is meant fuch authority as it is
for their own good, and the good of fociety, that they fhould
fubmit to; becaufe that habit of ready fubmiffion and the temper
of mind which accompanies it, will be of unfpeakable fervice to them,
and every fociety of which they fhall be members, through life."