Going to school
Going to school
Whydo children go to school—to benefit their parents, or themselves? I sometimes fancy that children make a mistake in this matter, and fancy that they go to school just because their parents will have it so, and not because it is important to their happiness to learn to read, and spell, and write and cipher.
The fact is, that parents love their children, and desire their happiness, and therefore it is that they desire them to be taught at school. Many parents are so anxious that their children should be well educated, that, although they are poor, they will toil very hard to get the means of sending them to school.
Children should therefore consider that it is for their own sake they are sent to school, and required to learn and say their lessons. It is to make them wiser and better, and to qualify them to obtain success in life, that they are thus trained up, by their parents—those who love them best, and best know what is good for them.