hat is the poor American to do in his present fever and
with his present nerves, but with fivefold greater powers
placed in his hands and fivefold greater attention and
capacity demanded for their control? If sixty years ago the
free forces and rushing advance of the republic urgently
needed the regulation of a powerful and learned conservative
body, who can overestimate the necessity for such service
now?

When you ask how it is to be rendered, one cannot be
mistaken in turning first to those priceless qualities in
any sound national life whose tendency to decay we noted at
the outset. Give back to us our faith. Give back to us a
serious and worthy purpose. Restore sane views of life, of
our own relations to it, and of our relations to those who
share it with us.

_Whitelaw Reid, Phi Beta Kappa address, 1903._

CHAPTER VI

THE HOME AND THE SCHOOL

One must not displace the other, for one cannot replace the other, but
rather the home and the school must react on each other. The home is
the place in which to gain the experience, and the school the place in
which to acquire the knowledge that shall illuminate and crystallize
the experience. The child should go out to the school with enthusiasm,
and return to the home filled with a deeper interest and desire to
realize things.

In morals and manners the school can only give tendency or direction
to the child's life. The school is not the best place to teach ethics.
In the family life the child himself finds his future revealed,
reflected by his relations to other members of the family. The spirit
of cooperation nurtured there will develop in the school through the
more various opportunities of relationship to others.

The earlier conditions cannot be restored, even the home training
cannot be brought back, except on the farm, and there, it is hoped, it
may be revived. The city or suburban children cannot have the
opportunity to pick up chips when too young to bring in wood; cannot
stand by and hold skeins of yarn, or go to the barn and help feed the
calves--all most interesting and provocative of endless questions.
They cannot go into the garden and pick berries or vegetables for
dinner, cannot learn how to avoid breaking the vines, or how to judge
the ripeness of the melons.

All that is probably not feasible for many, because it is not possible
to give children of this age resp