Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-04
EDUCATION READJUSTED.
Freedom Granted the Child When At
tanned by the Parent-Give Him
Chance to Develop.

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Tnis il a creative age. The human
race is about to leave the ape plane Of
syoluricn-that is, the plane Of imitation.
Education is readjusting itself. This
age will educate education in the law
of creation.
Teaching has TO do with the creative
instinct in the child-not alone with that
which the child creates.
To-day, in higher education. the mis-
sion Of the teacher is 10 reveal a law
Of nature. One glimpse OF the reason
why is worth more to the child than a
thousand applications of Solomons sug-
gestion.
The modern mother classifies her
childs mind early. lis he an imitator or
| creatorE She asks that question I'M
til she knows Some day the public
school will put the same question, and
II that day the mother will ask the
teacher to whom she intrusts her child
Are you an imitator or creatOr!'
4 creative age will adjust IT'S institu-
tions to its own law. This readjustment
has begun. Do not place your child in
a mental atmosphere where it does not
belong. The imitator cannot be educated
with the creator. Apes do not go to
school with men.
a creative child cannot be forced in
to life of habit. The creative child
has method-the initiative child has hab-
It. Today the parent and the child are
working at the same predetermined of
creation: they are comrades.
How to dominate the child is no part
| Of parental relationship. Authority over
! the child is not attainment: it is expires
sion of animal force. Obedience is the
result.
Your baby has brought with him the
right and power of self-expreSsion. Self
expression spells success. His involved
power is to be evolved and you are TO
be careful watcher while he unfolds to
you the purpose and application of the
intelligence he brought with him; in
short tells you what he came for.
The plan of the child's life is within
Itself and is its own possession Sub
jectively the child knows that plan. 1t
VIII make straight line for it's own
place in nature if free to do So To you
the road is a problem; to the child it is
me shortest distance between two points.
The child as we'll as the lily knows its
blooming place: instinct teaches it this.
The Nineteenth century had to deal
with the education of the child-the
twentieth will bring the educated par
ent,
Discoveries in the scientific world have
turned the hour glass Of Time for educa-
ton, commercialism, theology, ar-Par-
euthood.
The ape age ends here-the age Of imi-
tation.
The missing link" will be created in
the mind of man. The Twentieth cen
fury will build the link between imitator
and creator. The link was lost in hu-
mainly.
Give your child chance to create him
sell whlIn a Gro TiyAoy
The law of creation is eternally the
same; it will change its place of express
SION but Will never change itself
Inc problem of the parent is to become
as soon as possible unnecessary to the
child He is TO discover himself.
The thought of possession will kill the
possibility of friendship between them.
If nay boy loves mo it mast be because
am lovab!e-for the same reason in short
that he loves someone else. The fact
that / bore him may strengthen that
love; it will not create it,
Parentage Is not possession. What do
YOU possessg You possess the power TO
invite souls presence beside you. There
is no relation in all nature giving indi-
vidual ownership.
Your child has come to apply his own
wisdom and get eXperience-come to walk
eAslde you on the same journey You
can journey with it. not for il.
Study your child. 1t has come to teach
You. Live with it for one week with this
point Of view. Listen to it,
You grant freedom to your child when
YOU have attained it for yourself You
heStow your own attainment upon him.
Nou achieve for him in achieving for
Yourself He breatheS from your mental
atmosphere. He faces no danger bu:
from Your mind.
He has brought with him a reserve
force to meet his life He is equal TO
every experience coming down the years
towards him. His coming has not changed
the purpose of your own life but added
larger opportunities of fulfilllnent.
You cannot give him anything-he has
come To take possession of his dwn.-
Louise Downes in Modern Women.