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i8o The Century of the Child
When I began at five years of age to make
a rag doll, that by its weight and size really
gave the illusion of reality and bestowed much
joy on its young mother, I began to think
about the education of my future children.
Then as now my educational ideal was that the
children should be happy, that they should not
fear. Fear is the misfortune of childhood, and
the sufferings of the child come from the half-
realised opposition between his unlimited pos-
sibilities of happiness and the way in which
these possibilities are actually handled. It
may be said that life, at every stage, is cruel
in its treatment of our possibilities of happi-
ness. But the difference between the suffer-
ings of the adult from existence, and the
sufferings of the child caused by adults, is
tremendous. The child is unwilling to resign
himself to the sufferings imposed upon him by
adults and the more impatient the child is
against unnecessary suffering, the better; for
so much the more certainly will he some day
be driven to find means to transform for him-
self and for others the hard necessities of life.
A poet, Rydberg, in our country who had
the deepest intuition into child’s nature, and
therefore had the deepest reverence for it,
wrote as follows :
" Where we behold children
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