My reading of the second half of Chapter 2 in John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. A part I highlighted was where Mill said “I rejoice in the decline of the old brutal and tyrannical system of teaching, which, however, did succeed in enforcing habits of application; but the new, as it seems to me, is training up a race of men who will be incapable of doing anything which is disagreeable to them.”
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Mill's Autobiography, Part 5
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My reading of the second half of Chapter 2 in John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. A part I highlighted was where Mill said “I rejoice in the decline of the old brutal and tyrannical system of teaching, which, however, did succeed in enforcing habits of application; but the new, as it seems to me, is training up a race of men who will be incapable of doing anything which is disagreeable to them.”