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ON COBBLERS AND GENERALS

How to Cultivate Quiet Kids in a World

That Can’t Hear Them

With anything young and tender the most

important part of the task is the beginning

of it; for that is the time at which

the character is being formed and the desired

impression more readily taken.

—PLATO, THE REPUBLIC

Mark Twain once told a story about a

man who scoured the planet looking for

the greatest general who ever lived.

When the man was informed that the

person he sought had already died and

gone to heaven, he made a trip to the

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