A quotation from Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics.
[Les enfants ont plus besoin de modèles que de critiques.]
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 19 “De l’Éducation [On Education],” ¶ 3 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 14]
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