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SEXUAL DEVIATIONgence, and so to call out highly critical reactions in theirchildren who sit in judgment over them, for children arehypercritical of their parents, in an egoistic anxiety thattheir parents should be models of perfection."The people who best disciplined children and taughtthem self-control/' Professor Winifred Cullis remarkedat a meeting of the Parents' Association in London, "wereother children." This is a wise observation so long as it istaken in connection with the considerations here broughtforward. Life must be lived with our equals and we cannotlive without discipline and control. There must alwaysbe repression in life, in the sense of an inhibition ofimpulses and a subordination of some natural possibilities.There is no room in social life for unrestrained license;as Freud well says, in the admirable twenty-seventhlecture of his Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, "free livingis itself a repression," for it crushes the half of our impulsesand the most human half, in which ultimately ourhappiness must mainlylie. It is better that elders shouldnot be the imposers of discipline and control, but ratherthe guides and referees when difficulties arise. From theearliest age there begins the formation of self-disciplineand self-control, and it may most naturally and mostwholesomely arise in that life among equals for which alleducation that is worth anythingis the training ground.BIBLIOGRAPHYA. MOLL, The Sexual Life of the Child.S. FREUD, Three Contributions to Sexual Theory.STANLEY HALL, Adolescence.HAVELOCK. ELLIS, "Sexual Education," Studies in the Psychologyof Sex, Vol. VI.WILLIAM and DOROTHY THOMAS, The Child in America:Behavior Problems and Programs.O. RANK, Modern Education.