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Education 177
The highly cultivated mothers and the socially
useful mothers on the other hand are not sel-
dom those who call forth criticism from their
sons. It seems almost an invariable rule that
mothers should make mistakes when they wish
to act for the welfare of their sons. " How
infinitely valuable," say their children, " would
I have found a mother who could have kept
quiet, who would have been patient with me,
who would have given me rest, keeping the
outer world at a distance from me, with
kindly soothing hands. Oh, would that I had
had a mother on whose breast I could have
laid my head, to be quiet and dream."
A distinguished woman writer is surprised
that all of her well-thought-out plans for her
children fail—those children in whom she saw
the material for her passion for governing, the
clay that she desired to mould.
The writer just cited says very justly that
maternal unselfishness alone can perform the
task of protecting a young being with wisdom
and kindliness, by allowing him to grow ac-
cording to his own laws. The unselfish
mother, she says, will joyfully give the best of
her life energy, powers of soul and spirit to
a growing being and then open all doors to
him, leaving him in the broad world to follow
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