Talks to parents and teachers / by Homer Lane.

  • Homer Lane
Date:
1928
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Talks to parents and teachers / by Homer Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    While at Nice he contracted typhoid and pneumonia. He moved to the American hospital in Paris, where his wife and eldest son joined him. In this hospital he died, after a fortnight more of hard fighting, on September 6, 1925. Lane’s friends had always urged him to write, and, yielding to their persistence, he had proposed two books, one of them on the upbringing of young children and the other on the “ re-education ” of adults by means of psychological analysis. These he had more than once begun, and a few relics of his attempts remain, but generally he destroyed what he had written. The fact is that he was neither a systematic thinker nor a literary craftsman. He was a genius in understanding and sympathy, but a genius of that type which cannot easily make its methods available for others to use. But some of those who have observed or enjoyed his gifts of insight into the complexities of personality were unwilling that no record of his labours should remain. Hence this book, consisting in part of Lane’s manuscript Lectures of 1919 on The Self-De¬ termination of Small People, and, for the rest, based on miscellaneous fragments and on full notes taken by some of those who attended his lectures, since delivered in London to parents and teachers. These notes and remains have been brought into their present shape by Mr. H. H. Symonds and Mr. C. H. C. Osborne, while Lane’s work at the Little Commonwealth in Dorset will be described in the separate book above referred to, Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth, by Miss E. T. Bazeley. The *5