This is so much energy set free for other uses.

We know how it emerges in hero-worship or in ardent friendships; how it reinforces the social instinct and produces the team-spirit, the intense devotion to the interests of his own gang or group which is rightly prominent in the life of many boys.

The teacher has to reckon with this funded energy and enthusiasm, and use it to further the highest interests of the growing child.

By this I do not mean that he is to encourage an abnormal or emotional concentration on spiritual things.

Most of the impulses of youth are wholesome, and subserve direct ends.