The Natural Way in Moral Training Four Modes of Nurture
The Natural Way in Moral Training Four Modes of Nurture
Patterson Du Bois
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Scudder. ' " The animals are made to speak in accordance with some intended lesson and have this for the reason of their being. . . . Very little of the animal appears but very much of the lesson. The art which invented the fable was a modest hand- ' " Childhood in Literature and Art. " 230 The Natural Way- maid to morality. " To this symbolism (for the kindergarten) Miss Blow objects because of its artificiality — the animals portrayed in the fable not being true brutes but human beings in bru...te disguise. The real life of animals she sees to be symbolic because it presents analogies to human emotions, relationships, and experiences. This virtually disposes of an immense fund of trashy sentimentalized animal stories for children which are untrue to life. Miss Blow asserts that "most fables are open to objection, because they deal with motives be- yond the range of childish experience. " This is our essential point. Citing Rousseau's analysis of La Fontaine's fable in which the fox flattered the raven into singing and then ran away with the meat she dropped in opening her mouth — Miss Blow asks, "Do we wish to inoculate chil- dren with suspicion and distrust?
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