DEAN A. S. WHITNEY 6-28-1935 TO SIX DEAR CHILDREN WHO HAVE TAUGHT ME MORE THAN I HAVE THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT WE desire to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to C. Hanford Henderson, whose book, "Education and the Larger Life," more than any other one source, illuminated for a young mother the path of duty toward her children. We also gratefully acknowledge the help and inspiration, gained in later years, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher's "The Montessori Mother," and "Mother and Children," and from her stories in which this captivating writer has proven herself to be a veritable Harriet Beecher Stowe of misunderstood childhood. (In this connection we would especially mention the short story, "What Really Happened," published in the September number of Good Housekeeping magazine, for 1916.) We give most humble and hearty thanks to the Giver "of all good and perfect gifts," for everything that gives impetus to that trend of increasing sentiment in the home, liberating the child from unnecessary hardships of the spirit, and which correlates as a movement, with the efforts of John Dewey and other noble pioneers in the educational field, to humanize and rationalize the elementary school. It is the well-poised child of the enlightened home who will be ready for the "new education." For our own attempts to help in this movement, we would give full credit to our friends, Mary W. Whited, of Rochester, N. Y., and Margaret Guillet, of Syracuse, N. Y., whose loving appreciation of the point of view has been an unfailing encouragement. W. P. W. |