The Psychology of It

ment that the morale of our American young people is not what it should or could be; and moral education "conferences," lecturers, educators, physicians, and social workers almost unitedly tell us that the grand and only remedy is instruction in sex hygiene. All agree that the home is the best place for this instruction, but that the home is not giving it, that many homes are incapable of so doing, and therefore the school should do it?yes, down to the first grade. It is likely that all these well-intentioned folk are making a profound mistake, and for many children perhaps a most unfortunate one. The mistake consists in believing in the fatal delusion that moral reform can be encouraged by teaching "facts," and that by means of a mere knowledge of anatomy and special hygiene a child's character can be made and kept clean, strong, and uncontaminated.