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The School of the Future 251
more the soul and body are passive, are will-
ing to be controlled and receptive, so much
the better are the results from the school
standpoint. Mischievous children, obstinate
characters, one-sided and original natures, are
always martyrs at school because of their de-
sire for action, their spirit of opposition, their
so-called " stupidity." Only the easy-going,
amiable, commonly endowed natures can keep
some of their own individual tendencies, slip
through the school, and at the same time get
good certificates of industry, moral character,
order, and progress. In the first-class modern
school, the mobile structure of personality is
forced into shape—or rather it is knocked
about by wind and waves, like a pebble on the
seashore. It is struck by one wave after an-
other, day by day, term by term; on they
come—forty-five minutes for religious in-
struction, the same period for history, then
French, then sloyd, then natural history; the
next day new subjects in new, small doses. In
the afternoon, there is preparation at home,
and writing exercises, previously arranged and
marked out, then corrected with care, and the
prepared readings made the basis of ques-
tioning by the most approved methods, the
mother having at home first gone over them
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