This book is dedicated to parents, teachers and students, all pupils in earth’s preparatory school. May it aid them in securing life’s greatest benefits, development and joy in service here and thus a fitness for that wider service, the “higher course” open to every human being in the school of the hereafter. ‘Education means more than… a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and the whole period of existence possible to man.’