EDUCATING CHILDREN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 4

EDUCATING CHILDREN

MOTHERS’ RESPONSIBILITY “The responsibility of a child’s moral and religious education must rest with the parents, and no parent is doing his or her duty who was satisfied with the limited training of the Sunday school or the day school,” said Mr. G. F. Henry at a meeting of the Mothers’ League (Remuera branch) last week. Long before the baby was born, said the -speaker, its training was begun by the mother, for it was affected by the qLiality of her thought. Cases were on record where mothers-to-be had purposely visited art galleries and trained their minds to admire pictures and sculpture, and in consequence of the mental impression made, their children had been all that they desired them to be. Not only art and music but science, politics and religion had much to thank mothers for, and many great soldiers and sailors had got their first impressions from the desire of their mothers. Unless their parents pointed out this how many girls had any idea of the great responsibility of motherhood? The speaker urged his audience not to think that educating the intellectual faculties was all that was necessary. The moral and religious must b© developed if any progress was to be expected. Spiritual evolution was far more important than the mere mental or physical.