4. The emphasis placed upon manual training, especially in its
development of the child's creative activity.
5. The training of the sense of beauty, harmony, and order; its
ethical as well as aesthetical significance.
6. The insistence upon the moral effect of happiness; joy the
favorable climate of childhood.
7. The training of the child's social nature; an attempt to teach the
brotherhood of man as well as the Fatherhood of God.
8. The realization that a healthy body has almost as great an
influence on morals as a pure mind.
I do not say that the consistent practice of these principles will
bring the millennium in the twinkling of an eye, but I do affirm
that they are the thought-germs of that better education which shall
prepare humanity for the new earth over which shall arch the new
heaven.
Ruskin says, "Crime can only be truly hindered by letting no man
grow up a criminal, by taking away the will to commit sin!" But, you
object, that is sheer impossibility.
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