Show contributed articles suggestion A moans of moral education the art of moral suggestion 1 may be defined as tho the art of modifying if yan an individual by b y persuading in 0 him that lie he is or maybe may be other than he is this art is one of the most important appliances in education all education indeed should be directed to this end to convince coa vinco the child that he is capable of good and incapable of evil in order to render him actually so to persuade him that he has a strong will in order to give g ive him strength of will to make him believe he is morally free and 1 master of himself in order that the idea of moral liberty may tend to progressively realize itself it is often enough to tell children and young C people or otherwise lead them to believe that wo we assume this or that good quality in them to induce them to exert themselves to justify the opinion to assume in them depraved sentiments to reproach them undeservedly to treat them badly is to produce contrary result it has been jestly said that the art of managing the young consist before anything else in assuming them to be ba as good as they wish themselves to be ba testimony of esteem is one ol of tho the most powerful forms of su suggestion on the other hand to believe ini anio 0 wickedness of any one is as a if to make him more wicked than lie ho is numerous facts from prison life show that 6 to treat a half criminal as a grea great criminal is to urge him to crime to raise a man in the esteem of the public and himself is to raise him in re reality a lity every statement made aloud upon tho the mental state ofa child immediately plays the role of a su suggestion 00 estion this child is nau naughty gaty ho he is idle he will not do this or that eliat how many vices are thus developed not by herid ity or f adt a tation clity but by ill advised deduc education MAGGIE PALMER |