Excerpt from Growing a Life: A Book for the School and the Home
This book is born of a desire to serve. There is nothing original about it, unless to view pedagogy as a life process be original.
It has been our privilege annually to meet in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Texas many teachers and parents and talk to them of the child. At such times these thoughts took shape around that theme. Kind hearts and keen minds were interested in the views here put forth, accepted some of them, and said they were practical. In such tributes a certain latitude is to be allowed for insincerity, yet in ten years and more of contact with life we have found more than enough of truth to make us "trust the larger hope."
The principles here announced have been tested in the laboratory of home and school for nearly a score of years. They are the thoughts of the wisest we have met, hammered into something of a unit by the child as we met him in the everyday world. Our school service, whatever it has been, is due directly to an appropriation and application of these principles. What has helped us so much may help others a little.
Often the child, the center of all systems of education, is overlooked while the puny satellites - texts, methods, and routine - monopolize attention. In this work, therefore,
the child is elevated above all else.
Throughout the work there is an attempt to express a pedagogy of conviction, of personal entreaty, of joyousness of living, and more especially of the divine happiness of living with children.
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