A Wish for Children to Understand the Physical Sciences

If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

Notes:

Thomas Arnold speaking about his own children, and his wish for them to understand and appreciate the grandeur of the cosmos.

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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Arnold , Thomas and Stanley , Arthur Penrhyn (2010-03-09), The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, Nabu Press, Retrieved on 2011-09-12

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