ABSTRACT
The main part of a child's education should be concerned with the great human relationships, relationships of love and service, of authority and obedience, of reverence and pity and neighbourly kindness. Sociology is a long word, but it implies a practical relation with other people which children should begin to get, and it is a kind of knowledge they are very ready for. The value of self-managed clubs and committees, debating societies, for young people, is becoming more and more fully recognised. Organising capacity, business habits, and some power of public speaking, should be a part of fitness as citizens. To secure the power of speaking, the author thinks it would be well if the habit of narration were more encouraged, in place of written composition. On the whole, it is more useful to be able to speak than to write, and the man or woman who is able to do the former can generally do the latter.
