Nigel’s Reviews > Emile, or On Education > Status Update

Do better: be reasonable, and do not reason with your pupil, especially to get his approbation for what displeased him. Bringing reason to bear on unpleasant things only makes reason tedious for him and discredits it early in a mind not yet in a condition to understand it.

In the earliest age sacrifice time that you will regain with interest at a more advanced age.