THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY
THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY
The human being arrives:
"Immense have been the preparations for me,
Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me;
Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;
For room to me the stars kept aside in their own rings,
They sent influences to look after what was to hold me;
Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
And forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me;
Now, on this spot I stand with my robust soul."
--WALT WHITMAN.
"The child grows up in a setting of social functions of a type
higher always than that of his private accomplishment. He must grow
by gradual absorption of copies, patterns and examples."--BALDWIN.
"He is happy who comes with healthy body into the world; much more
he who goes with healthy spirit out of it. Nature has implanted
within us the seeds of learning, of virtue, and of piety; to bring
these to maturity is the object of education. All men require
education, and God has made children unfit for other employments
in order that they may have leisure to learn."--COMENIUS.
"The most critical interval of human nature is that between the
hour of birth and twelve years of age; this is the time when vice
and error may take root without our being possessed of any
instrument to destroy them; the first art of education, then,
consists neither in teaching virtue nor truth but in guarding the
heart from evil and the mind from error."--ROUSSEAU.
"A ladder leading to heaven is let down to every child, but he
must be taught to climb it. Education should decide for every
child not only what is to be made of its life, but should seek an
answer to the question, what was it intended that child should
become?"--PESTALOZZI.
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."--OLD PROVERB.
"Come, let us live with our children!"--FROEBEL.
