Even the kindergarten, with its short hours and its more artificial life, only shows each day a picture of what the child may do later on in his own self-culture.

The home nursery is the real place of actual experience for the average child, with the family table and the intimate association with father and mother and brother and sister.

These make a school of preeminent importance to the later training.
=Women's Relation to More Formal Education.=--The fifth obligation which the modern mother inherits from the ages is that relating to the more formal education of all girls and of all little boys in the folk-lore, the vocational skill, and the methods of social arrangement which set moral fashions and demand personal obedience to the social order into which one is born.

This obligation is so largely shared to-day that many see in it no special burden for the modern mother.
The school training once so largely within the home, or for the older boys so definitely obtained in fraternities or war-groups of men, is now a separate institution.

The customs, tribal or national, that once ruled the family-training are now solidified and definitely outlined in laws written on statute books.