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124 The Century of the Child
ported, and so prevented from being deformed
by weakness.
One often finds, in the modern system of
training, the crude desire for mastery still
alive and breaking out when the child is ob-
stinate. " You won’t
!
" say father and
mother; "I will teach you whether you have
a will. I will soon drive self-will out of you."
But nothing can be driven out of the child ; on
the other hand, much can be scourged into it
which should be kept far away.
Only during the first few years of life is a
kind of drill necessary, as a pre-condition to
a higher training. The child is then in such
a high degree controlled by sensation, that a
slight physical pain or pleasure is often the
only language he fully understands. Conse-
quently for some children discipline is an in-
dispensable means of enforcing the practice
of certain habits. For other children, the
stricter methods are entirely unnecessary even
at this early age, and as soon as the child can
remember a blow, he is too old to receive one.
The child must certainly learn obedience,
and, besides, this obedience must be absolute.
If such obedience has become habitual from
the tenderest age, a look, a word, an intona-
tion is enough to keep the child straight. The
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