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Our
Commitment
We feel
an inexplicable humility
towards the appeal
of dependence of a
child. It makes us
conscious of the responsibility
of trust. Our experience
and imagination shows
us what the child may
become, for good or
for evil, how his impulses
may be developed or thwarted,
how his hopes will be dimmed
and the life in him grow
less living, |
how
his trust will be bruised
and his quick desires
replaced by the brooding
will. This gives us a
longing to help the child
in his own battle; we
equip and strengthen
him, not for some outside
end, but for the ends,
which the child’s
own spirit is obscurely
seeking. We wield the authority
of an educator without
infringing the principles
of liberty. |
