INTRODUCTION XXI 



dignity is a matter of so much importance, that 

 the child must be repressed whenever he does 

 anything that might seem to be a reflection upon 

 it. Not so from Dr. Bigelow's point of view. 

 With him, discipline, teacher, subject, method, 

 must all stand in the background. The child, 

 and the child alone, has a right to the centre of 

 the stage. 



