Welsh, Charles: _Right Reading for Children_. Heath.




CHAPTER II



PRINCIPLES OF SELECTION FOR FAIRY TALES

All our troubles come from doing that in which we have no
interest.--EPICTETUS.

That is useful for every man which is conformable to his own
constitution and nature.--MARCUS AURELIUS.

Genuine interest means that a person has identified himself
with, or found himself in, a certain course of activity. It
is obtained not by thinking about it and consciously aiming
at it, but by considering and aiming at the conditions that
lie back of it, and compel it.--JOHN DEWEY.



I. THE INTERESTS OF CHILDREN


Now that the value of fairy tales in education has been made clear,
let us consider some of those principles of selection which should