Show DEFENSE OF THE FAIRY TALE Writer Points Out Its Importance In In Inthe Inthe the Scheme of Education of the Child Ignorance of fairyland Is the pun of intellectual vanity vanity the the vanity of the average pedagogue who has bas forgotten that education means leading forth and not stuffing in It is the vanity of the physiologist who forgetting that the germ is a faculty of influence and enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise not an arrangement of molecules molecules mole mole- cules thinks to create it in a test test- tube It is the vanity of ot the who believes he will Improve upon those ancient ways of ot life which for a few ages before Mendel and managed all untutored to evolve a reverent man something g more marvelous marvelous mar nar- than these modern academic things who seem so ignorant of their native nativo virtues To r-To the fairy tale we must often orten look if It we are to mend our ways with the child and lead him forth to find find that mighty world that true self which Is tho the idea of him laid up In Inthe inthe inthe the heart of God New New York Tele Tele- gram n |