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right to his own, and a wise teacher will refrain from dogmatising as to motives or ethics or other abstractions. The children are encouraged to think for themselves, to discuss, to criticise, and to hear other people’s views. Most children appear to he supremely interested in ethical questions, and their comments are at times extremely illuminating. All this goes to prove the truth of Madame Montessori’s assertion that given freedom a child will tend to develop along the right li nes, and even along the lines approved by grown-up people. The child mind is above all honest and just. That he cannot always live up to his own standards goes without saying, but it is of the utmost importance that they should be his own, evolved by himself and not forced upon him by a ruling caste, to he discarded as soon as may be.