" MY IDEAL SCHOOL"
[To the Editor of -the SPECTATOR.]
Sra,—It may interest your correspondent, " BM/B02L," not perhaps as a practical solution to his perplexity, but rather as a matter of interest, that there exists in America a school where an attempt, at least, is made to supply his desiderata. The enrolment is very small ; and the teachers and students live as a family. Everything was done by the founder to provide the material conditions for health and an apprecia- tion of beauty. Physical development is promoted by boxing, wrestling and calisthenics. The instruction is given with the object of opening a boy's mind to think for himself.
Anyone, it seems to me, who has lived long enough and deeply enough to have a perspective by which he can deter- mine life's essentials would agree with your correspondent that the real result of true education is to reveal to a boy the secret place of true religion. And when there are enough teachers who are " able to pass quietly to their boys thoughts about the unseen and real, which they can digest and translate for themselves into their own lives," we shall not be far from the kingdom of heaven.
In the school I refer to there is one teacher whose practical religion is the inspiration of both teachers and pupils, and to whom all life is a school for the purpose of learning to hear and obey the still small voice within.—I am, Sir, &c., LESTER C. WENta.
Worcester Lane, Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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