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Education 109
sight when she says that only the people who
can play with children are able to educate
them. For success in training children the
first condition is to become as a child oneself,
but this means no assumed childishness, no
condescending baby-talk that the child im-
mediately sees through and deeply abhors.
What it does mean is to be as entirely and
simply taken up with the child as the child
himself is absorbed by his life. It means to
treat the child as really one’s equal, that is, to
show him the same consideration, the same
kind confidence one shows to an adult. It
means not to influence the child to be what we
ourselves desire him to become but to be in-
fluenced by the impression of what the child
himself is; not to treat the child with decep-
tion, or by the exercise of force, but with the
seriousness and sincerity proper to his own
character.
Somewhere Rousseau says that all education
has failed in that nature does not fashion par-
ents as educators nor children for the sake of
education. What would happen if we finally
succeeded in following the directions of nature,
and recognised that the great secret of educa-
tion lies hidden in the maxim, " do not
educate " ?
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