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Do not teach the child many things, but
never to let him form inaccurate or confused ideas.I care not if he knows nothing provided he is not mistaken, and I only acquaint him with truths to guard him against the errors he might put in their place. Reason and judgment come slowly, prejudices flock to us in crowds, and from these he must be protected. But if you make science itself your object, you embark on an unfathomable
and shoreless ocean, an ocean strewn with reefs from which you will never return. When I see a
man in love with knowledge, yielding to its charms and flitting from one branch to another
unable to stay his steps, he seems to me like a child gathering shells on the sea-shore, now
picking them up, then throwing them aside for others which he sees beyond them, then taking
them again, till overwhelmed by their number and unable to choose between them, he flings
them all away and returns empty handed.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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