Man Is Largely A Creature Of Habit,

Muscles Are In A Most Intimate And Peculiar Sense The Organs Of The Will. They Have Built All The Roads, Cities And Machines In The World, Written All The Books, Spoken All The Words, And, In Fact Done Everything That Man Has Accomplished With Matter. Character Might Be A Sense Defined As A Plexus Of Motor Habits.

Education Has Now Become The Chief Problem Of The World, Its One Holy Cause. The Nations That See This Will Survive, And Those That Fail To Do So Will Slowly Perish. . . . There Must Be Re-education Of The Will And Of The Heart As Well As Of The Intellect; And The Ideals Of Service Must Supplant Those Of Selfishness And Greed.

There Is No More Wild, Free, Vigorous Growth Of The Forest, But Everything Is In Pots Or Rows Like A Rococo Garden... The Pupil Is In The Age Of Spontaneous Variation Which At No Period Of Life Is So Great. He Does Not Want A Standardized, Overpeptonized Mental Diet. It Palls On His Appetite.

Of All Work-schools, A Good Farm Is Probably The Best For Motor Development.

Daily Contact With Some Teachers Is Itself All-sided Ethical Education For The Child Without A Spoken Precept. Here, Too, The Real Advantage Of Male Over Female Teachers,especially For Boys, Is Seen In Their Superior Physical Strength,which Often, If Highly Estimated, Gives Real Dignity And Commands Real Respect, And Especially In The Unquestionably Greater Uniformity Of Their Moods And Their Discipline.