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“A taste for the beauties of nature should be very early cultivated.”
- Date
- 1787
Meaning of “A taste for the beauties of nature should…”
Attention to nature is treated as something that can be educated, giving children another source of pleasure beyond display, fashion, or social approval.
Where does it come from?
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), “MORAL DISCIPLINE,” printed page 22, Project Gutenberg #67466. Wollstonecraft urges that a taste for the beauties of nature be cultivated early and immediately recommends making the vegetable and animal worlds intelligible and amusing to children.
