Already, all the dynamic instincts are present, at least in germ; asking for an outlet.

The will and the emotions, ductile as they will never be again, are ready to make full and ungraduated response to any genuine appeal to enthusiasm.

The imagination will accept the food we give, if we give it in the right way.

What an opportunity! Nowhere else do we come into such direct contact with the plastic stuff of life; never again shall we have at our disposal such a fund of emotional energy.
In the child's dreams and fantasies, in its eager hero-worship--later, in the adolescent's fervid friendships or devoted loyalty to an adored leader--we see the search of the living growing creature for more life and love, for an enduring object of devotion.

Do we always manage or even try to give it that enduring object, in a form it can accept?
Yet the responsibility of providing such a presentation of belief as shall evoke the spontaneous reactions of faith and love--for no compulsory idealism ever succeeds--is definitely laid on the parent and the teacher.