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219 develop the natural insight of the child, to enable him to make the best use of the capacities with which he has been endowed, to train him in habits of observation and reflection, and to encourage him to think and reason for himself. In so far as the school is successful in this, it is helping to educate the child in virtue, for it is making it easier for him to acquire the habit of what Arnold of Rugby termed "moral thoughtfulness." And a sane moral thoughtfulness, free from cant and priggishness, is the foundation of all virtue.

For further reading: C. F. D'Arcy: Short Study of Ethics, part ii. ch. x. and xi.; S. E. Mezes: Ethics, ch. ix.-xiv.; J. Dewey and J. H. Tufts: Ethics, ch. xix.; T. H. Green: Prolegomena to Ethics, §§ 240-285.