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114 The Century of the Child
and themselves are still a rare product. Most
people live on the capital and interest of an
education, which perhaps once made them
model children, but has deprived them of the
desire for educating themselves. Only hy-
ing oneself in constant process of growth,
under the constant influence of the best things
in one’s own age, does one become a companion
half-way good enough for one’s children.
To bring up a child means carrying one’s
soul in one’s hand, setting one’s feet on a nar-
row path; it means never placing ourselves in
danger of meeting the cold look on the part
of the child that tells us without words that he
finds us insufficient and unreliable. It means
the humble realisation of the truth that the
ways of injuring the child are infinite, while
the ways of being useful to him are few. How
seldom does the educator remember that the
child, even at four or five years of age, is mak-
ing experiments with adults, seeing through
them, with marvellous shrewdness making his
own valuations and reacting sensitively to each
impression. The slightest mistrust, the small-
est unkindness, the least act of injustice or
contemptuous ridicule, leave wounds that last
for life in the finely strung soul of the child.
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