"
Diana drew a long breath. "I wonder why," she said.
"I think that lack of imagination, poor memory, personal selfishness,
is the answer. There is nothing people forget quite so quickly as the
griefs of their own childhood. There is nothing more difficult for
people to imagine than how things affect a child's mind. And yet,
nothing is so important in America to-day as the right kind of
education for boys. It has not been found as yet."
"Have you a theory about it?" asked Diana.
"Yes, I have. Have you?"
Diana nodded. "I don't think boys and girls should be educated from
the same angle."
"No? Why not?" Enoch's blue eyes were eager.
"Wandering about the desert among the Indians, one has leisure to think
and to observe the workings of life under frank and simple conditions.
It has seemed to me that the boy approaches life from an entirely
different direction from a girl and that our system of education should
recognize that. Both are primarily guided by sex, their femaleness or
their maleness is always their impelling force. I'm talking now on the
matter of the spiritual and moral training, not book education."
"Why not include the mental training? I think you'd be quite right in
doing so.
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