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194 The Century of the Child
no time has so much been done for the educa-
tion of children as at present; that parents
were never so watchful over the physical and
psychical needs of the children ; that at no time
has the intercourse between children and par-
ents been so free; at no time have schools been
so actively at work.
This is true but much of this tends to in-
crease the homelessness of which I am speak-
ing. The more the schools develop the more
they are burdened with all the instruction for
children, the more hours of the day they
require for their demands. The school is
expected to give instruction even in such
simple matters as making children acquainted
with their national literature, and handwork,
which mothers could do perfectly well, cer-
tainly as well as our grandmothers. The
greater the attention given at school to such
essentially good things as gymnastics, hand-
work, and games, the more children are with-
drawn from home. And even when at
home, they are hindered by lessons and writ-
ten exercises from being with their father and
mother, on those exceptional occasions when
the parents are at home. If we take into con-
sideration the way in which the modern school
system uses up the children’s time, and pre-
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