o breath of its real life in its beingand
dies when the wind of popular tendency veers from its direction. Soyou
can teach a child interesting facts about bees and butterflies by telling him
certain storiesand you can open his eyes to colours and processes in
nature by telling certain others; but unless you do something more than
that and before thatyou are as one who should use the Venus of Milo for
a demonstration in anatomy.
The message of the story is the message of beautyas effective as that
message in marble or paint. Its part in the economy of life is TO GIVE
JOY. And the purpose and working of the joy is found in that quickening
of the spirit which answers every perception of the truly beautiful in the
arts of man. To give joy; in and through the joy to stir and feed the life of
the spirit: is not this the legitimate function of the story in education?
Because I believe it to be suchnot because I ignore the value of other
usesI venture to push aside all aims which seem secondary to this for
later mention under specific heads. Here in the beginning of our
consideration I wish to emphasise this element alone. A story is a work of
art. Its greatest use to the child is in the everlasting appeal of b
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