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i66 The Century of the Child
school. The home and the school should com-
bine together systematically to let the cliild
suffer for the results of his own negligence.
Just the reverse of this system rules to-day.
Mothers learn their children’s lessons, invent
plays for them, read their story books to them,
arrange their rooms after them, pick up what
they have let fall, put in order the things they
have left in confusion, and in this and in other
ways, by protective pampering and attention,
their desire for work, their endurance, the gifts
of invention and imagination, qualities proper
to the child, become weak and passive. The
home now is only a preparation for school. In
it, young people growing up, are accustomed
to receive services, without performing any on
their part. They are trained to be always re-
ceptive instead of giving something in return.
Then people are surprised at a youthful gen-
eration, selfish and unrestrained, pressing
forward shamelessly on all occasions before
their elders, crudely unresponsive in respect of
those attentions, which in earlier generations
were a beautiful custom among the young.
To restore this custom, all the means usu-
ally adopted now to protect the child from
physical and psychical dangers and incon-
veniences, will have to be removed. Throw
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