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Parents — and teachers too — are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the 'right answer' more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one’s self cannot be learned from another.

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Monica Baldwin

Monica Baldwin

Monica Baldwin (1893-1975) was a niece of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. She is chiefly of interest because after spending twenty-eight years in a closed order of nuns (she entered in 1914, a few months before the outbreak of World War I), she left the convent in the middle of World War II, entering a world changed beyond belief from the one she had left. In the intervening period, she had not read a newspaper, seen a photograph or heard the radio. She published a memoir, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and impressions after twenty-eight years in a convent , in 1950 and a debut novel The Called and the Chosen in 1957. In the 1960s she lived on Alderney in the Channel Islands She died of an overdose in a home to care for the elderly in 1975. [ citation needed ] ,

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