Excerpt from The Kilburn Manual of Elementary Teaching: A Practical Guide to Primary School Work
Most people, if asked the question - What is the object of education? would reply - To impart knowledge, or, To prepare children for their future life both here and hereafter. A better definition would be - The object of education is the harmonious development of the child"s whole being - body, soul, and spirit. Pestalozzi calls it "The generating of power," and Fr?bel "The perfect growth of the whole being."
If this high view of education be the true one - and who can gainsay it? - it proves, beyond a doubt, that the art of teaching is the noblest of all arts, and the one which will best repay untiring labour, thought, and study.
Teachers who realise this, will not find it difficult to rouse themselves to that enthusiastic interest in their work, which is essential to its success. They will entertain just ideas of the grandeur of their vocation, and the momentous issues which hang upon the fulfilment of the duties it imposes. And this appreciation of the importance of the work committed to them, will urge them on to be ever seeking to make themselves more worthy of it. It will quicken them to do their utmost in the great cause.
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