Because he discovered that in fact children usually paid less attention to what their teachers said than to the instructions they got around the house. For his children, that meant learning from nursemaids and servant girls.
因為他發現，對孩子來說，師友之誡往往不如保母婢女的指揮；對凡人來說，堯舜之道更不如自己老婆的話來得入耳。