education of children

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate
the minds of our children and exalt their courage;
to accelerate and animate their industry and activity;
to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness,
abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and
an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.
If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy,
they will grovel all their lives."

~John Adams
[Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756]


Gratitudes:

1. I am grateful for Netflix.
2. I am grateful for words.
3. I am grateful for windows that let in sunlight.
4. I am grateful for refrigeration.
5. I am grateful for my health.