Development of Personality.

Experience, discipline, culture, research, and information are,
however, the great means by which the personality absorbs the social
inheritance and thus finds its own place in the social whole. The
early initiation by the family to all these means of personal
development is not yet exhausted either in function or in social
usefulness. The family still begins the socializing process.

QUESTIONS ON THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL

1. In child-training, should the general aim be to give as much
as possible of that training in the home or as much as
possible in the school? or what is a wise and efficient
balance between family and society influence in education?

2. Given a necessity in character-development for drill in
obedience, stimulus toward self-development, capacity for
self-control and for helpful association with others in the
interest of the commonweal, what part, if any, can the home
play which the school cannot?

3. What is the duty of citizens in respect to tax-supported and
compulsory education and how can that duty be effectively done
in city and country life?

4. How can educational systems be made to work for the better
cooerdination of family life among the newly arrived immigrants?

5. Outline, in general suggestion, an educational program for boys
and for girls which would be likely to directly aid the family
in attaining stability and success among all classes, having
regard to aim, subject-matter, methods of character-development
and form of social provision and control in the school.

FOOTNOTES:

[17] See _Democracy and Education_, by John Dewey: "Because of death of
individuals, life has to perpetuate itself by transmission, by
communication; must be social in character."

[18] See _The Children's Book of Moral Lessons_, published by Watts and
Co., London.

[19] See _Principles of Sociology with Educational Applications_, by
Frederick R. Clow, a valuable and suggestive book for the general
reader.

CHAPTER XV

THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER STATE

"I should like to point out by what principles of action we rose
to power and under what institutions and through what manner of
life we became great. We are called a democracy, for the
administration is in the hands of the many, not the few; but while
the law secures equal justice to all, the claim of excellence is
a