Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… and to exchange Sentiments with one another for mutual Instruction and Pleasure; but if we make it only a Conveyance of Lies, and Circulation of Fraud, we render it not only useless, but also hurtful. And pray, Sir ! may we not be honest … – he farther informed me, that many of the polite Forms of ordinary Conversation are only a more specious kind of Lies, and that they fetter the Freedom and Easiness of friendly Intercourse, and ought therefore to be banished out of a … and to exchange Sentiments with one another for mutual Instruction and Pleasure; but if we make it only a Conveyance of Lies, and Circulation of Fraud, we render it not only useless, but also hurtful." … Education … Conversation … Gender … …
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