CHAPTER II 
LITTLE STUDIES IN COOPERATION 
The hunger for brotherhood is at the bottom of the unrest of the modern 
civilized world. — George Frederick Watts 
In the labyrinth of garden possibilities through which we 
have been threading our way, two have been constantly attract- 
ing our attention : training in science and training in coop- 
eration. Suppose we were accused of setting upon these too 
high a value. This charge might be made in all sincerity ; 
and it might be admitted, too, provided our attention were 
riveted upon school problems alone and not upon world prob- 
lems. But out in the world both science and cooperation play 
leading roles in each day’s business, great and small. The 
role of science is to develop the type of mind which in its 
humdrum aspect can turn its attention to inhibiting snap 
judgments or to sterilizing the baby’s milk, but which can, 
nevertheless, perform equally well the supreme service of 
discovering the typhoid germ. 
Cooperation renders its peculiar service by developing lead- 
ership and initiative, — not initiative in school sports and 
school debates alone, but initiative that makes the worker 
forge ahead in studies that connect with the larger if not the 
more real world of civic activity and household economics. 
Said the child, struggling to define salt, " It ’s the stuff 
that when it is n’t in things makes them taste bad.” Likewise 
of cooperation it may be said that, when it is n’t in things, 
they go, oh ! so badly. This, of course, is simply because we 
do not see what the other fellow is driving at. 
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