Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothi…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education
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