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IV. Topics por Discussion

1. Is the quiet child an ideal child? How far should
we go in restraining activity ?

2. The relative advantages of work and leisure for
children. What of the value of chores to you; did you do
them? Describe any forms of children's service in the
home which have come under your observation.
3. What forms of conununity service can be done by
children and by yoimg people ?

4. Recall any lessons learned by activity in your early
home life.
5. Give in their order, according to your judgment, the
potencies for religious character in the home.
CHAPTER VIII
THE HOME AS A SCHOOL"

The home is so mighty as a school because,
requiring little time for formal instruction, it enlists
its scholars so largely in informal activities. It
trains for hfe by living; it trains as an institution,
by a group of activities, a series of duties, a set of
habits. If the home is to prepare for social living
it will be most of all and best of all by its organi-
zation and conduct as a social institution.
§ I. AN IDEAL COMMUNITY

For the purposes of society homes must be
social-training centers; they must be conducted as
communities if their members are to be fitted
for communal living. No boy is likely to be ready
for the responsibilities of free citizenship who has
spent his years in a home under an absolute mon-
archy; or, as is today perhaps more frequently
the case, in a condition of immitigated anarchy.
A free society cannot consist of units not free.
