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Show Child Must Have Home Training. Our old home culture and, worse still, the old home pieties, are disappearing. disap-pearing. The church and Sunday-school Sunday-school have not kept pace with mod em pedagogy, and are losing their hold on society at large. In the increase of hoodlumism, divorce, child labor, luxury, and extravagance, there is a relaxation of moral muscle, and in distress we are turning to the schools to stem the tide of moral insufficiency. President Eliot said spend more money for education; but it is a mistake. mis-take. We cannot transfer the duties of the home or of the church to the school. In his social environment, in the time he spends out of school, the child gets more education or miseduca tion than he gets in it. We have to come back to the old Idea of having the parents purge out the moral malaria. ma-laria. Percival Chubb of the Ethical Culture Society in Leslie Weekly. |