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Show SUBORDINATION OF THE WILL. Educator Urges Necessity of Teaching Children to Obey. Learn to obey! By obedlenco I do not mean .a merely outward submission submis-sion to forco and authority, but the voluntary subordination of one's own will under tho will of a better and higher intelligence. He who has not teamed to do this in childhood will hate great difficulty in learning it in later life; he will rarely get beyond the deplorable and unhappy state that vaclllntea between outward submission and uproarious rebellion. No greater wrong can bo dono to childhood than tho ono caused by our desire to spare it the necessity of obeying. Whoever conceives the duty of the educator to consist In giving In to all desires of the child, In gratllytng nil Its wishes, makes himself guilty of the gravest sin toward IiIb child. Ho denies de-nies It what, in view of its future mission, mis-sion, it cannot .afford to lose, namoly, the exercise In voluntarily subordinating subordi-nating Its own wilt under necessity, be it a natural or a social one. Prof. F. Paulson, University of Berlin, In Educational Review. |
