112 Heredity and Child Culture 



Education 



The importance of proper education is 

 stressed by the fact that the early impressions 

 of the young are never entirely forgotten. Few 

 realize the power of ideas, especially when 

 early implanted. The effect of ideas when rein- 

 forced by strong suggestion has an especially 

 quick result upon the plastic mind of the child. 

 It took only about two generations of careful 

 instruction in State Schools to cause the obses- 

 sion of the superman and world dominion to 

 take hold of youthful Germany and she sprang 

 at the throat of the world, although the older 

 generation Avas naturally friendly and law abid- 

 ing. The Jesuit is usually satisfied if he can 

 control the early years. 



Attention has been directed to the fact that 

 little children cannot concentrate attention very 

 long on one subject, so that mental exercises 

 should be short with frequent intercurrent rests. 

 As a rule, it is better for a child to be with 

 others, as work, study and play with school- 

 mates is more favorable than being too much 

 alone or too exclusively with adults. 



