A curious anniversary to be cole-brated on May 11 and 12 is that of the founding 0 years ago of the Parents! National Education Union, by 'a Miss Charlotte Mason, 1 confess 1 never heard of her before, but now shall inscribe her name on the tablets of memory beside that of Mme 'Montessori, She was aMicted by' the manner in which parents. repressed their children and founded the P.VEV. to teach them in the way they should go. Since then P.NEU, principles have spread. far and wide among schools and tea and hundreds of children who ed thereby are to assemble for a thanksgiving service Mason's memory, besides parents 3nd governesses; though whether the latter are really so thankful us they pretend is another matter.
Were children really so much oppressed, to the extent of permanent Injury to character? The Fairchild Family children, of course, were created as an Awful Warning, and perhaps even more so their parents. Yet Mrs, Sherwood, their creator, though she never sat down in hot presence and never spoke Yo them unless first spoken to, could even be affected to tears at the Thought of how she loved them. Go through all the children of Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Dickens: oppressing and spolling were fairly evenly distributed. It is perhaps a question of whether you have one child or a dozen, The "World's Sweetheart" ice ary Pidord aeved Loan ike, de tga or out emt hetties belie Bate ala! Eaeperton of Scion ord and Samet Sin oat cava ale aatiog Ni fe nae me Sian cap from ston ie hey for on thea stools fae und fase't*haructany ce" ness S "the day after ako atzved, Mies vii Fath they Stora o slay itr oth ce ili chay gree tcks te'
AES nf never caesar them GPR BO Sal Sat Pirarah pete Heat tien coa cee woe oat SiR sou a Wen we can iifg,"we shall eliminate War and. a salvidully accomplish hat Way Lunieppiness)" What "oonses all th Hroubie in ihe. world today Is tear, hen greed. "Those are. dest And contrast with this, one recalls that four great their Governments) are violently preaching the subordination of the individual mind to the herd mind, for the exaltation of the State, which fs to be above all law except its own interest. Does one not instine-{ively prefer Mary Plekford's doc rine?
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