Excerpt from The Natural Way in Moral Training: Four Modes of Nurture
This is the proposition.
The essential problem, then, is to make better educators of us all by presenting the great principles that underlie the formation of character so that they may seem to have come of themselves in natures own way; to conduct the pastor, parent, teacher, or any one uninterested in formal pedagogy, through the avenues of his own experience to the easy possession of the laws of character-growth; to help him to interpret his own life and all life about him in terms of influence and power. If this be possible there ought to be an increase of efficiency in the church, out of which should grow a like efficiency in the home, the school, and the state.
With very practical purpose this book is an essay towards such an end. The distinctive thing about it is its point of view and the method which grows out of it by analogy. There is nothing novel in its facts even though there be novelty in their handling. The plan is to put familiar phenomena into usable relations; to marshal them, group them, focus them about familiar natural centres. It therefore takes no point of departure in the terminologies common to ethical, theological or other philosophical disciplines, nor even in child-study as such.
The point of view is nutrition, which is the natural response to hunger, in the larger sense of need.
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