Children are very delicately sensitive to these influences, they respond unconsciously to what is expected of them, and instinctively they imitate the models set before them.

They catch a tone, a gesture, a trick of manner with a quickness that is startling.

The influence of mind and thought on mind and thought cannot be so quickly recognized, but tells with as much certainty, and enters more deeply into the character for life.

The consideration of this is a great incentive to the acquirement of self-knowledge and self-discipline by those who have to do with children.

The old codes of conventionality in education, which stood for a certain system in their time, are disappearing, and the worth of the individual becomes of greater importance.