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Just as small children
suffer less damage from their frequent falls, from
their crawling on hands and knees and, a little later,
from their incessant play and their running about
from morn till eve, because they are so light in
weight and have so little to carry, even so their
minds are less susceptible of fatigue, because their
activity calls for less effort and application to study
demands no exertion of their own, since they are
merely so much plastic material to be moulded by
the teacher.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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