Excerpt from Training the Children There is a new training. It is better than the old training. It is based on the Self-activity of the child. It believes in the child. It respects his rights. It supplies him with the conditions and materials by which the best elements in his nature grow to be the dominant elements in his power and character. It makes him positive and not negative in character. It helps him to become free and self-directing. It relates him to humanity, to the universe, and to God. It reveals law to him, as a directive not merely a restrictive force. It reveals his special power to him, and leads him to understand that the purpose of his' life should be to use this power in transforming present conditions into better conditions. The purpose of this book is to contrast the new with'the old training, that the value of the new may be more clearly seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.