My answer to it is, in brief, that it is the whole human being that grows, the whole nature of the child,--body, mind, heart and soul.

When I use these familiar words, I am far from wishing to suggest that human nature is divisible into four provinces or compartments.

In every stage of its development human nature is a living and indivisible whole.

Each of the four words stands for a typical aspect of Man's being, but one of the four may also be said to stand for the totality of Man's being,--the word _soul_.

For it is the soul which manifests as _body_, which thinks as _mind_, which feels and loves as _heart_, and which is what it is--though not perhaps what it really or finally is--as _soul_.
The function of education, then, is to foster the growth of the child's whole nature, or, in a word, of his soul.