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of experience and of instruction. The age of discretion and of 

 responsibility in conduct is slowly attained. The experiences 

 and counsel of those who are older, whether written in books, 

 listened to at home or in school, or witnessed in lives about 

 us that are worthy of being followed as examples, make a 

 wise course in life possible until personal experience can 

 safely modify or replace these safeguards. Any failure to 

 direct one's self aright does not destroy all growth previously 

 made toward manhood or womanhood. Habits are the 

 results of repeated efforts, and the importance of the single 

 act as explained by the physiologist and the psychologist 

 lies in the knowledge that another like act becomes more 

 probable. 



SUMMARY 



The larger part of what any one knows is learned usually outside 

 school. It may be considered that the chief purpose of schools is to 

 stimulate and direct a love of knowledge, and to give efficient training 

 in its acquisition and effective use. 



What has been learned by men down through the ages in any one 

 of the sciences has been so classified and related that it is possible in 

 a year's study to get a good general knowledge of it. 



Knowledge becomes of largest worth when it promotes our own 

 highest welfare, both of body and of mind, and when through us it 

 benefits others in largest degree. 



Habits of any kind become fixed only through years of repetition. 

 Both the training and the instruction given in schools should be directly 

 concerned in fitting every one habitually to make more intelligent 

 choices in his manner of life, and in all matters of skill and of knowledge. 



The habits formed in connection with doing school work should be 

 such as to make men and women more efficient in life, more self-reliant, 

 and more persistent in the solution of life's problems. One's whole 

 life should be more sane and better directed by reason of attendance 

 upon school. 



. The person who must always be told what to do and when to do it, 

 who must be made to do what he ought to do and made to refrain from 

 doing what he ought not to do, is not yet grown up. He remains a 

 child in development whatever his age in years may be. 



