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- Title
DISCUSSION.
- Authors
Horsfall, M.T.
- Abstract
The article comments on Arthur St. John's essay on the roles of community and its children. Nearly all the men and women who, with stirred hearts and minds, and with a strong desire to go and do likewise, read of the good work done for young people by the best boys' and girls' clubs, by the best parts of the Boy Scouts organization, by the Seton Indian work, the George Junior Republic, and many other organizations. There are the home, the elementary school, the continuation class, the public playground, the church, the relation between employer and employed, the public-house. What is it that is really effective for good in all the kinds of work mentioned by Captain St. John? The effective element in all the kinds of work seems to the author to be that the adult guide always gains the love and respect of the young people, and that, while he gains their love chiefly by helping them to do things, the doing of which is necessary for the development of their physical, mental and spiritual powers, he gains their respect because they find him, not only kind, but just and a lover of all that, as they gain greater insight and desire to act rightly, they feel to be deserving of respect.
- Subjects
CHILD development; WORK environment; INSTITUTIONAL care of children; ELEMENTARY schools; COMMUNITIES; PUBLIC institutions
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1912, Vol a5, Issue 2, p140
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article