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I lo The Century of the Child
Not leaving the child in peace is the great-
est evil of present-day methods of training
children. Education is determined to create
a beautiful world externally and internally in
which the child can grow. To let him move
about freely in this world until he comes into
contact with the permanent boundaries of an-
other’s right will be the end of the education
of the future. Only then will adults really
obtain a deep insight into the souls of children,
now an almost inaccessible kingdom. For it
is a natural instinct of self-preservation which
causes the child to bar the educator from his
innermost nature. There is the person who
asks rude questions; for example, what is the
child thinking about? a question which almost
invariably is answered with a black or a white
lie. The child must protect himself from an
educator who would master his thoughts and
inclinations, or rudely handle them, who with-
out consideration betrays or makes ridiculous
his most sacred feelings, who exposes faults
or praises characteristics before strangers, or
even uses an open-hearted, confidential con-
fession as an occasion for reproof at another
time.
The statement that no human being learns
to understand another, or at least to be pa-
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