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I70 The Century of the Child
were quiet as mice in the presence of elder per-
sons. Instead of, as they do now, breaking
into a guest’s conversation, they learned to
listen. If the conversation of adults is varied,
this can be called one of the best educational
methods for children. The ordinary life of
children, under the old system, was lived in
the nursery where they received their most im-
portant training from an old faithful servant
and from one another. From their parents
they received corporal punishment, sometimes
a caress. In comparison with this system, the
present way of parents and children living
together would be absolute progress, if par-
ents could but abstain from explaining, ad-
vising, improving, influencing every thought
and every expression. But all spiritual, men-
tal, and bodily protective rules make the child
now indirectly selfish, because everything
centres about him and therefore he is kept in
a constant state of irritation. The six-year-
old can disturb the conversation of the adult,
but the twelve-year-old is sent to bed about
eight o’clock, even when he, with wide open
eyes, longs for a conversation that might be
to him an inspiring stimulus for life.
Certainly some simple habits so far as con-
duct and order, nourishment and sleep, air and
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