CHAPTER VI PARENTS AS INSPIRERS Primal Ideas derived from Parents ‘One of the little boys gazing upon the terrible desolation of the scene, so unlike in its savage and inhuman aspects anything he had ever seen at home, nestled close to his mother, and asked with bated breath, “Mither, is there a God here?”’—John Burroughs. […]
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CHAPTER V PARENTS AS INSPIRERS The Things of the Spirit Parents, Revealers of God to their Children.—It is probable that parents as a class feel more than ever before the responsibility of their prophetic office. It is as revealers of God to their children that parents touch their highest limitations; perhaps it is only as
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CHAPTER IV PARENTS AS INSPIRERS The Life of the Mind grows upon Ideas ‘Sow and act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.’ Summary of the Preceding Chapter.—The last chapter closed with an imperfect summary of what we may call the educational functions of parents. We found
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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
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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
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Parents and Children ——♦♦—— 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
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