Under this title, "Education Is an Art," we published in a past issue an article by the excellent educator Miss Nahla Marwa, in which she treated this delicate subject in the education of growing childhood; you will recall certain aspects of shortcoming in home education.

In her second talk she continues this engaging discussion, in another installment which turns on the coop-eration between school and home in the education of the child.

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The mother sends her child to school when he reaches the fourth or fifth year of his age. The moment

at which the child leaves home for school for the first time is one of the happiest moments in the life of every mother; but this happiness must not be born of the desire to lift responsibility from ourselves, nor of the wish to be rid of the child and his stirring about the house.

Here is your child entering school. The specialized teacher receives him, and he begins to make the

acquaintance of the other chil-dren, just as he makes the acquaintance of his classroom and the various implements around him. He takes pleasure in them and grows attached to the school, for he finds it other than what those around him at home had described to him. He looks at the teacher and does not see in her that strange, frightening person he had imagined; on the contrary, she is a gentle angel who is tender toward him, loves him, and looks after him. And he is utterly astonished when he finds in the school no trace of harshness and no cause for fear: it is a comfortable place which he grows used to and comes to love, until he almost forgets home in it.

But this does not mean that once your child has entered school and fallen in love with it, you cease to be responsible for him. Your responsibility remains what it was, for you must cooperate with the school in his education and guidance. Just as the two parents cooperate in bringing up their children, so must a kind of cooperation arise between home and school, if we want the child's education to be a sound and complete education, without flaw or shortcoming.

One mother said to me one day, speaking of her child: "You are his second mother; he spends most of his time with you, and I leave to you the matter of guiding him however you wish." You are in some measure right, madam; but there must be an understanding between me and you as to the methods it is best to follow in dealing with your child, after a careful study of his psychology and his inclinations in which we both take part. How, for instance, do you expect us to replace a bad habit in the child with a good one, if the methods for changing it are used only at school, so that when the child returns to

the home, everything goes back to what it was?