Sons of India 17th July 1909

If the Empire movement in England can instil into the minds of the British people the necessty for the display of such virtues in all their relations its work will prove to have been one of the most potent forces of this age in setting a standard of Government the attainment of which is essential to the rapid progress of humanity towards the goal of universal peace. [...] In the “poor” schools 6.3 of the children are “very pale ” in the “good” only o 8 ; in the “poor” schools 32.3 are pale “in the “good” only 14 9 ; the percentage of normal scholars is 84.3 in the “good“ school ; it i6 6v4 in the “bad.” The utter futility of present methods of treating diseased children is emphasised. [...] Here in India alas ! this question of the supervision of the mother over the young children receives a severe check from the fact that that supervision exists only for the first few years of the child’s life and even then is limited to the loving care for the physcal comfort of the child. [...] FrOebel the great child-lover and educationalist of the past century was so covinced of the importance of the pre-scholastic period of childhood that his great aim was to train mothers to a fuller realisation of their power for directing and developing the self-activity of their children In the so called Kindergartens he sought by means of employments and occupations of all kinds to give f [...] This I trust in time become the function of the mothers throughout120 SONS OF INDIA I JULY India for the decay or the rise of a nation depends on the neglect or cultivation of the faculties of its children and if India is to bcome a leading power among the great nations of the world it cannot be by ignoring the different needs of society but by suppling an adequate response to those ne