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This page states a simple ethic with unusual directness: do not train children to mistrust their own truth.

The strength here is its clarity. The page offers no metaphor and no detour, just a moral injunction against teaching children false guilt. Because it is so short, it reads almost like a note someone wanted to preserve before the surrounding world complicated it.

Titled 'A moral', the page delivers a single unmetaphored injunction: 'Don't ever let / children think / they are wrong / when they are / right'. The line break that holds 'right' alone gives the lesson its weight, a plea against teaching false guilt.