{"id":5619,"date":"2017-06-01T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","slug":"teach-courage-not-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/teach-courage-not-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach courage, not caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> As far as the education of children is concerned, I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one\u2019s neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; [Natalia Ginzburg](https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Little-Virtues-Natalia-Ginzburg-ebook\/dp\/B01LY5HBCQ)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> As far as the education of children is concerned, I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/teach-courage-not-caution\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,373,3,6],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-2","category-leadership","category-personal","category-philosophy","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1sD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}