Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

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Re: Early Education

[cahn]

Not to mention all the emphasis on needing to learn that he owes his parents genuine love, respect, and complete trust, and that there shouldn't be any fear or "subservient love and slavish affects".

Oh dear. FW just... is... very low on the self-awareness scale.

Funny enough, this whole part was then followed by a provision stating that if Fritz was disobedient, they (= Finkenstein and Kalkstein) should always threaten him with the Queen's reaction, never with FW's

Heh, that's interesting. And interesting too that this seems to have completely backfired.

he was allocated exactly seven minutes for breakfast in between "short prayer/washing/dressing" and "long prayer/religious education/..."

Wow! I... usually take longer than that to eat my bowl of cereal :P

FW wrote letters to both Finkenstein and Kalkstein to inform them that he's very disappointed that he had been re-reading his 1718 instructions and realized that the two of them had done a bad job! And he'd be totally justified if he punished them!

oh lol! Oh FW. Poor Finkenstein and Kalkstein, at least they didn't actually get punished.