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Spontaneous Activity in Education, Chapter I, “A Survey of the Child’s Life,” around printed page 20, Florence Simmonds translation, Project Gutenberg #24727. Montessori proposes a child-scaled environment and immediately develops the claim through the language of active and spiritual life. This is historical Montessori pedagogy and observation, not a universally established modern developmental outcome.

Working With the Hands, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #64504. This short excerpt precedes Washington’s discussion of poverty, family responsibility and practical education.

The Tatler No. 147; the comparison presents reading as a form of regular exercise for the mind.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, the lecture on the Hero as Man of Letters.

Self-Help, Chapter XII, “Example—Models,” Project Gutenberg #935. Smiles argues that character education depends heavily on models because people unconsciously mould themselves after the characters, manners, habits and opinions around them.

Of Studies; Bacon distinguishes the intellectual uses of reading, conversation, and writing within the essay’s compact account of study and judgment.