TRAINING OF CHILDREN.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43065, 5 March 1907, Page 4

TRAINING OF CHILDREN.

“The education, and training of children,” remarked the Rev. T. H. * Sprott, at a meeting of St. Mary’s Guild at Wellington, “is most important, but in the case of neglected cliilreligious teaching is more imr "still.” To enforce his argujMpeoit,” says the Few 1 Zealand Times, Sprott referred to the psychloB:al discovery that in all persons a is a region entirely apart from | \\ ; (ihdinaiy oons-cdousness—the subcon-soio-us mind, or the subliminal consciousness ■ Not only all our past was retained in this region but something more appalling, in impulses and drear,m -which might be- either bright thinora of terror, foul or fearP»'>BK"' r “T , ffp-ohologists said that these I ;j things were in our sub-consciousness I from back in the past of the human I' race—back to our animal stage —and though alien to our personal characters had become our own through 1 inheritanlce from the measureless past. Lchild had not got much of its own IT past in its subconscious mind, but it traces of piast humanity. The ■ •only way to counteract that, and what F might come from it, wals for the child to be fortified by pure, wholesome and ■fcoly.- .thought s.. .The - tragic- --mistake making,” Said “is that this is not taken into ■ account. Many people oppose the re- ■ ligioue teaching of children because, Cybery slay it involves so much that is I dark and superstitious. They do not I realise that, according to the teaching of the modern psychologist, if you l v keep a child from religion and super- [ . fetation, out of its sub-conscious mind I will be fashioned the superstitions 1 I . have .referred to. This is true of I ’educated ("Children. How much m’ore I so, 1 thin/ of the neglected ones?” He upon the a ' l ‘- Mary’s Guild way in which a, little in a most import-