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honest, to be truthful, to co-operate, to take defeat. If he does not 

 play right he must be deprived of playing with others until he will 

 play right. 



After a child has done in his imagination all the things he knows, 

 he wants to really help with the indastries of the home. A girl wants 

 to sew, to dry dishes, to set the table ; a boy to rake, to plant, to take 

 up ashes, to bring in wood. It is so much easier to say, "You cannot 

 do this, you will break something, or injure something; run along and 

 play;" or to say, "I haven't time to give you an industrial training." 

 It takes time to thread needles, to take out knots and wrong stitches, 

 to train children to use scissors, to use hammer, rake and shovel, to do 

 things, to make things, to do some kindergarten work. But is not this 

 training worth the time it takes? It is play as long as it is interesting 

 to the child and gives pleasure in doing. It has a moral value as well 

 as an industrial one. It teaches the child usefulness, helpfulness, con- 

 sideration for others, service. 



Is it not important that we give the child the right attitude toward 

 work? Should not every one be trained to take a part in the world's 

 work? There is need of trained laborers in the industrial, intellectual, 

 artistic and religious W'Orld. If we are properly trained for our work, 

 if we have not so much to do that it is drudgery, we can have the play 

 attitude toward our work. The child will imbibe this spirit from us. 

 We are not here for self-ease, or for self indulgence, but for service. 

 The greatest of all Teachers made service the test of fitness for life. 



To sum up : We must give our children the physical basis to meet 

 life. We must train them to right thinking, and right acting; we must 

 train them for noble living. 



