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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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164 The Century of the Child
study preparation at home for the school tak-
ing up, as it now does, the best part of a child’s
life, the school must get the smaller part, the
home the larger part. The home will have the
responsibility of so using the free time as well
on ordinaiy days as on holidays, that the child-
ren will really become a part of the home both
in their work and in their pleasures. The
children will be taken from the school, the
street, the factory, and restored to the home.
The mother will be given back from work
outside, or from social life to the children.
Thus natural training in the spirit of Rous-
seau and Spencer will be realised; a training
for life, by life at home.
Such was the training of Old Scandanavia;
the direct share of the child in the work of the
adult, in real labours and dangers, gave to the
life of our Scandanavian forefathers (with
whom the boy began to be a man at twelve
years of age), unity, character, and strength.
Things specially made for children, the anxi-
ous watching over all their undertakings, sup-
port given to all their steps, courses of work
and pleasure specially prepared for children,
—these are the fundamental defects of our
present day education. An eighteen-year-
old girl said to me a short time ago, that she

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