Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.


The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929 (ed. Viking Adult, 1993)


Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others,...

Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others,...

Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others,...

Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others,...