Sneath & Hodges, _Moral Training in School and Home_. Macmillan, $0.80. E.O. Sisson, _The Essentials of Character_. Macmillan, $1.00. H. Thisleton Mark, _The Unfolding of Personality_. The University of Chicago Press, $1.00. Paul Carus, _Our Children_. Open Court Publishing Co., $1.00. III. Topics for Discussion 1. Of what importance is the child's sense of possession? 2. What are the first evidences of a consciousness of property rights? 3. How do homes train in dishonesty? 4. What is the relation between cheating and dishonesty? 5. What is a child seeking to do when he teases another? 6. What are the unfortunate features of teasing? 7. What is the relation of teasing to bullying? 8. What cures would you suggest for either? FOOTNOTES: [49] Parents will be helped by the practical discussions of cheating, cribbing, and other boy problems in Johnson, _Problems of Boyhood_. [50] See "Book List" in Appendix. CHAPTER XXIII THE PERSONAL FACTORS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Whoever will stop to review his early educational experience will be impressed with the instantaneous and vivid manner in which certain teachers spring into memory. They are seen as though actually living again. We have difficulty in recalling even the subjects they taught, while of the particulars of their teaching we have absolutely no recollection. But they continue to influence us; they are like so many silent forces leading our lives to this day. The teacher is always greater than his lesson, and what he is, is greater than what he says. The religious education of the young depends more on the gift of persons, on contact with lives, than on anything else. There are instructors and there are teachers; the former impart information, the latter convey personality; the former deal with subjects, the latter teach people. The greatest factor in education as a process of developing persons is the power of stimulating personality. The power of the family as an educational agency is in the fact that it is an organization of persons for personal purposes. When you take the persons away you remove all educational potencies. The depersonalized home is the modern menace. We have come to think that provided you throw furniture and food together in proper proportions you can produce a capable life. So we depend on the home as a piece of machinery to do its work automatically, forgetting that the working activity is not the home but the family, not the furniture but people. Life can only come from life, and lives can only come from lives. Personality alone can develop personality. By so much as you rob the family life of your personal presence, as mother or as father, you take away from its reality as a family, from its force as an educational agency, from its religious reality. § 1. ORPHANED FAMILIES