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opening mind of childhood ; and where her dis- 

 cipline did not in the least fit her for thinking 

 out methods of her own. . . . And now see her 

 with an unfolding human character committed to 

 her charge ; see her profoundly ignorant of the 

 phenomena with which she has to deal. . . . She 

 knows nothing about the nature of the emotions, 

 their order of evolution, their functions, or where 

 use ends and abuse begins." ^ One sentence more 

 from Mr. Spencer : " Some acquaintance with the 

 first principles of physiology and the elementary 

 truths of psychology is indispensable for the right 

 bringing up of children." ^ 



Before education can be what it should and 

 may be, there must be introduced into the cur- 

 riculum that which may perhaps be called the 

 study of human nature ; children and young 

 people should be trained to see what is in man, 

 just as they are trained to find rare plants in the 

 field and moss agates in the mountains. More 

 careful nurture in the home will swiftly follow, 

 and that in turn will not tolerate systems of 

 culture in which all pupils are treated as if they 

 were manufactured products cast in a single 

 mould. In the building of a palace granite is 

 used for foundation, marble for walls and statues, 



^ Education, Herbert Spencer, p. 58. ^ Ibid. pp. 63, 64. 



