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Education 123
putting into exercise his own powers. Just
as little is this to be expected of those Christ-
ian believers who think that human nature
must be brought to repentance and humility,
and that the sinful body, the unclean beast,
must be tamed with the rod,—a theory which
the Bible is brought to support.
I am only addressing people who can think
new thoughts and consequently should cease
using old methods of education. This class
may reply that the new ideas in education
cannot be carried out. But the obstacle is
simply that their new thoughts have not made
them into new men; the old man in them has
neither repose, nor time, nor patience, to form
his own soul, and that of the child, according
to the new thoughts.
Those who have " tried Spencer and failed,’*
because Spencer’s method demands intelli-
gence and patience, contend that the child
m.ust be taught to obey, that truth lies in the
old rule, " As the twig is bent the tree is
inclined."
Bent is the appropriate word, bent accord-
ing to the old ideal which extinguishes person-
ality, teaches humility and obedience. But
the new ideal is that man, to stand straight and
upright, must not be bent at all, only sup-
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