ABSTRACT
The parents' relation to the school, like the growth of the school itself, was of slow development. The experiment gradually extended and became a large common enterprise which included parents, teachers, and children. The school is not a place for the acquisition of knowledge only. It is where the social instinct is recognized, while all of the powers of the body, mind, and soul are unfolding and developing under wise guidance. The school demonstrated that parents' interest in their own children is capable of being carried over to the school, so that school and home mutually extend each other. Their school experience with subject-matter throughout had been of a widely varied nature. The children were actors in the scenes of the constantly shifting, on-going, self-planned drama of their daily action. The teachers provided the setting and properties and were the stage directors.
