[A]ll feats of skill and daring were welcomed. Fear was not cultivated. To be brave, to be skilful in whatever one set a hand to, to accomplish everything undertaken, to surmount difficulty, gave life a perpetual goal. Nothing was more clearly demonstrated in the later conflict with disciplined armies than that he that had been faithful in little would be faithful also in much. That the hour of emergency must be the hour of triumph is one of the great underlying principles for the success of a venture or a country.
Raising citizens
From "The Salt-Box House," a proofing project at Gutenberg, a 1929 sketch of pre-Revolutionary War New England by Jane de Forest Shelton:
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That reminds me of Francis Parkman.
Starts with the kids- go outside, play in the woods, skin a knee and catch a fish and have a tussle with your best friend. Go home at dusk. Explore a frozen swamp with hidden islands in the dead of winter. Etc. 1000 variations of the same thing- let them learn independence.
I see parents picking up teens at the corner, sitting there, in their cars, waiting for the bus, so little darling does not have to walk 200 yards to the house on a rural road. Crippling behavior.
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