十九世紀英國散文家畢德萊( Samuel Butler)說教子心經:
「他只想把孩子在清新的空氣裏帶大。他堅持:子女童年應該在貧窮而不是富裕中渡過。他們年紀還小,住哪裏不重要,只要與一些體面端莊的人合羣,鄰居都正常。」
這段話的原文: He wanted his children to be brought up in the pure fresh air... insisted that they should pass their earlier years among the poor rather than the rich... they were still so young that it did not much matter where they were, so long as they were with kindly decent people, and in a healthy neighbourhood.