CMP Review 2026-05-04

May 4, 2026

“It is the communion at a common fount of life that counts,—the mutual enjoyment of book or character, of bird or flower, of mathematical problem or scientific discovery. In such fellowship the mother, the teacher, becomes first the friend and then the philosopher and guide in life’s occasions, chiefly because she has known how to enjoy and then to wait, to wait ready with the guidance that may be needed. If it is not asked for it is given best in the literary, impersonal form by some great writer, not in the form of an oral lesson on the subject, or a ‘talk,’ nor even in that of the topic started and ‘discussion invited.’ If guidance is directly asked for, with such a mutual understanding already established, a few words will set the traveller on the right road.” (“Moral Training”, PR27, E.K.)

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