SOUL OF THE CHILD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 8 May 1924, Page 3

SOUL OF THE CHILD.

EXAMPLE OF HOME LIFE

Their responsibility to the unblotted page of -childhood evidently weighs heavily .on x the Berhampore .School Committee.

"Your committee realises," stated the repo,rt presented to the annual meeting of householders recently, "that each scholar is a marvel of unknown and unrealised possibilities, and that no effort is too great or no sacrifice toO f large in the" interests of the child. The N strongest constructi\'e factor in the education of a human being is the settled, quiet order of home, its peace and its duty. Openheartedness, industry, straightforwardness at- home deA-elop goodness, desire to Avork, and simplicity in the child. Does the average person know what it means to attempt the education of th.c child? To bring up a child means carrying one's soul in one's hand, setting one's feet on a narrow path; it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the part of the child that tells us Avithout Avords that he finds us insufficient and unreliable. The slightest mistrust, the smallest unkindness, the least act of injustice or contemptuous ridicule leave Avounds that last for life in the finely strung son] of the child."