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This essay addresses parents and educators who reject dogma, offering a set of pragmatic opinions and suggestions for raising children through reasoned example and a nurturing household atmosphere. It treats education as cultivation of the child's natural tendencies toward growth, arguing that happiness—understood as full development and satisfaction—is the guiding aim, while insisting that individual pursuit of joy must stop where it harms others. The first section lays out general moral positions to shape domestic instruction; the second offers adaptive, concrete solutions to everyday problems of upbringing.