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214 The Century of the Child
Contact with reality in the whole school cur-
riculum ;—these must be the four corner-stones
of the new school.
But the time is far distant still, when gov-
ernment schools will begin to build on this
basis. What follows is meant, therefore, to
apply, not to the great revolutions of school
systems indicated above, but deals with im-
provements to take place at present.
Learning lessons should be assigned to
school hours as in France. Children should
have an entirely free day in the week ; study at
home should be confined to the reading of liter-
ary works, tales of travel, and the like, which
teachers can recommend in combination with
the studies pursued at school.
Tasks done at home are inconvenient; they
do not increase the independence of the
scholar; they are prepared as a rule with ex-
cessively free and often unwise help from the
parents. At school such work would be done
as a rule without help; besides, it is individual
and quickly finished.
In the school, time can be taken for study
selected at the scholar’s free choice. It can
be arranged for in the following way. Take
a class of about twelve scholars; in larger
classes no reasonable or personal method of
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