Your Children Are Weak | Episode LXV

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In his essay "On Educating Children," a follow-up to his denunciation of pedantry, Michel de Montaigne warns that "natural affection makes parents too soft" and incapable of properly disciplining their children, or even of letting their children take the risks and encounter the dangers they ought to. Book-learning, in Montaigne's essay, takes a backseat to the development of real virtue; erudition is ornament, not foundation.

Michel de Montaigne's Complete Essays: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140446043

Herodotus' Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146

Rhetorica Ad Herennium: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674994447

New Humanists episode "The First English Conversation, feat. Dr. Colin Gorrie": https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/11362004-the-first-english-conversation-feat-dr-colin-gorrie-episode-xxxii

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