very positive factor in study, one requiring much time and energy and
on which all the others that have been mentioned are dependent. A
person must have the courage to assert his rights in intellectual
matters, must believe in the worth of his own past, and must not allow
his regard for others to weaken his trust in self. All this requires a
high degree of self-respect, which can be attained only by careful
cultivation.

As he comes more and more in contact with the ideas, desires, deeds,
and examples of other persons, and the demand for conformity grows
more pressing, he must reserve special time and energy for studying
his own powers and tastes and for discovering his own thoughts about
the many subjects of study in which he engages. In the study of many a
poem, for example, more time will be required to determine his own
attitude toward it, to find himself in regard to it, than to
understand its meaning.

Remembering that one purpose of education is development of the self,
he must ever be on his guard against being warped out of shape by
others, and must therefore offer a certain normal resistance to
everything that is presented to him. To preserve and develop one's
self thus normally, it is safe to say that any student should have as
much esteem for himself, intellectually, as for others, and should
spend at least as much time and energy upon himself in finding out
what he himself thinks and feels, as upon others.



PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOB PRESERVING AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUALITY