The child is a natural pagan, and often the first appeal to its nascent spiritual faculty is best made through its instinctive joy in the life of animals and flowers, the clouds and the winds.

Here it may learn very easily that wonder and adoration, which are the gateways to the presence of God.

In simple forms of verse, music, and rhythmical movement it can be encouraged--as the Salvation Army has discovered--to give this happy adoration a natural, dramatic, and rhythmic expression: for the young child, as we know, reproduces the mental condition of the primitive, and primitive forms of worship will suit it best.
It need hardly be said that education of the type we have been considering demands great gifts in the teacher: simplicity, enthusiasm, sympathy, and also a vigorous sense of humour, keeping him sharply aware of the narrow line that divides the priggish from the ideal.

This education ought to inspire, but it ought not to replace, the fullest and most expert training of the body and mind; for the spirit needs a perfectly balanced machine, through which to express its life in the physical world.

The actual additions to curriculum which it demands may be few: it is the attitude, the spirit, which must be changed.
Specifically moral education, the building of character, will of course form an essential part of it: in fact must be present within it from the first.