Self Reliance 1916

Self-reliance
a practical and informal discussion of methods of teaching self-reliance, initiative and responsibility to modern children.

SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

I 0nce knew a village cobbler who maintained
that all the troubles of mankind originate in
badly fitting shoes. No amount of ridicule or criti-
cism could shake his conviction that the universe
centered in his trade. When some scoffer inquired,
"Do you expect me to believe that if Benedict
Arnold had worn the right kind of shoes he'd not
have been a traitor?" the old shoemaker stuck to
his gims. "He'd have been a better man, let me
tell you. He'd have been a better man, and nobody
knows how far that might have gone."

As I begin a book on self-reliance and responsi-
bility in child life, I force myself to remember that
naively bumptious shoemaker, but I find that I am
not sufficiently warned by his example. I bring to
my mind the fact that there are other problems in
the world : the problem of the unemployed, of capi-
tal and labor, of the transportation of farm produce
to market. But I find deep in my heart, untouched
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