But from the ethical and human point of view the meaning of all life is in each individual.

That one child should be lost is a kind of ruin to the universe.
It is this second point of view which every parent and every teacher must take; and the great practical value of our new study of children is that it brings us into personal relation with the child world, and so aids in that subtle touch of life upon life which is the very heart of education.
It is therefore that certain phases of the study of child life have a high worth without giving definite scientific results.

Peculiarly significant among these is the study of the autobiographies of childhood.

The door to the great universe is always to the personal world.

Each of us appreciates child life through his own childhood, and though the children with whom it is his blessed fortune to be associated.