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2o6 The Century of the Child
met the fate of birds who have come too early
on the scene.
As long as schools represent an idea, stand
for an abstract conception, like the family and
the state, so long will they, just as the family
and the state, oppress the individuals who be-
long to them. The school no more than the
family and the state represents a higher idea
or something greater than just the number of
individuals out of which it is formed. It, like
the family and the state, has no other duty,
right, or purpose than to give to each separate
individual as much development and happi-
ness as possible. To recognise these principles
is to introduce reason into the school question.
The school should be nothing but the mental
dining-room in which parents and teachers
prepare intellectual bills-of-fare suitable for
every child. The school must have the right
to determine what it can place on its bill-of-
fare, but the parents have the right to choose,
from the mental nourishment supplied by
it, the food adapted to their children. The
phantom of general culture must be driven
from school curricula and parents’ brains;
the training of the individual must be a reality
substituted in its place ; otherwise reform plans
will be drawn up in vain.
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