CHAPTER III PARENTS AS INSPIRERS Children must be born again into the Life of Intelligence           Parents owe a Second Birth to their Children.—M. Adolf Monod claims that the child must owe to his mother a second birth—the first into the natural, the second into the spiritual life of the intelligence and moral sense. Had he not been writing of women and for women, no … Continue reading Parents and Children Volume 1 Chapter 3

CHAPTER II PARENTS AS RULERS         The Family Government as Absolute Monarchy.—Let us continue our consideration of the family as the nation in miniature, with the responsibilities, the rights, and the requirements of the nation. The parents represent the ‘Government’; but, here, the government is ever an absolute monarchy, conditioned very loosely by the law of the land, but very closely by that law more … Continue reading Parents and Children Volume 2 Chapter 2

CHAPTER I THE FAMILY ‘The family is the unit of the nation.’—F.D.Maurice Rousseau succeeded in awakening Parents.—It is probable that no other educational thinker has succeeded in affecting parents so profoundly as did Rousseau. Emile is little read now, but how many current theories of the regimen proper for children have there their unsuspected source? Everybody knows—and his contemporaries knew it better that we—that Jean … Continue reading Parents and Children Volume 2 Chatper 1

III.—THE DIVINE LIFE IN THE CHILD          “The very Pulse of the Machine.”—It is evident we have not yet reached                  “The very pulse of the machine.”Habits, feeling, reason, conscience—we have followed these into the inmost recesses of the child’s life; each acts upon the other, but what acts upon the last: what acts upon them all? “It is,” says a writer who has searched into the deep … Continue reading Home Education Volume 1 Pt 6. Chapter 3