32 GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 



have been known to flourish, too. In one well-managed gar- 

 den it is the custom to "choose partners" for the working 

 of each plot. This is certainly a step, if not a stride, toward 

 cooperation. 



Probably the ideal way to utilize the highest incentives and 

 bring out the best in human nature is through harmonious 

 little partnerships working within one great brotherhood. 

 How rare it is for grown people like ourselves to do their most 

 telling work in isolation ! And is it not true that some highly 



PARTNERS 



gifted and efficient persons are pitifully limited in their use- 

 fulness just because they cannot work with others ? Each 

 one of us has learned, with more or less success, to reenforce 

 his own peculiar gifts by the aid of criticism from efficient 

 and responsive friends. The habit — one may truly say the 

 talent — of working with others has been somehow supposed 

 to develop of itself. The recognition of this talent as a force 

 to be nurtured and utilized during the period of school life 

 has, some believe, been too long neglected. It is time for 

 schoolmen to realize its deep significance. 



Let us listen for a moment to what is being said by men 

 out in the world who are " doing things." Not long ago 

 the managers of certain important business enterprises were 



