The Wisdom of Fenelon

Background

Born in FranceEducated in Athens GreeceStudied Latin and Greek

Achievements

Regained the trust of the Huguenots after Louis XIV slaughtered thousands

Educated King Louis’s incorrigible grandson

Philosophy

Believed that it was essential to abstain from responding to a child in his first emotion, or in the child’s first emotion

“for if you respond in your first emotion, the child will see that you are governed by mood and impatience,” not responding to a child in his first emotion was equally important “for his heart would not be in a state to profit from your correction.”

“for if you respond in your first emotion, the child will see that you are governed by mood and impatience,” not responding to a child in his first emotion was equally important “for his heart would not be in a state to profit from your correction.”