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178 The Century of the Child
his own paths, and ask for nothing, neither
thanks, nor praise, nor remembrance. But
to most mothers may be applied the bit-
ter exclamation of a son in the book just men-
tioned, " even a mother must know how she
tortures another; if she has not this capacity by
nature, why in the world should I recognise
her as my mother at all."
Certain mothers spend the whole day in
keeping their children’s nervous system in a
state of irritation. They make work hard and
play joyless, whenever they take a part in it.
At the present time, too, the school gets control
of the child, the home loses all the means by
which formerly it moulded the child’s soul life
and ennobled family life. The school, not
father and mother, teaches children to play,
the school gives them manual training, the
school teaches them to sing, to look at pictures,
to read aloud, to wander about out of doors;
schools, clubs, sport and other pleasures ac-
custom youth in the cities more and more to
outside life, and a daily recreation that kills
the true feeling for holiday. Young people,
often, have no other impression of home than
that it is a place where they meet society which
bores them.
Parents surrender their children to schools
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