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232 The Century of the Child
of existence, the connection between nature
and man’s Hfe, between the present and the
past, between peoples and ideas, cannot lose
his education. Only the person who, through
the mental nourishment he has received, sees
more clearly, feels more ardently, has absorbed
completely the wealth of life, has been really
educated. This education can be gained in
the most irregular way, perhaps around the
hearth or in the field, on the seashore or in the
wood; it can be acquired from old tattered
books or from nature itself. It can be terribly
incomplete, very one-sided, but how real, per-
sonal, and rich it appears to those who for the
period of fifteen years in school have ground
out the wheat on strange fields, like oxen with
muzzled mouths! Our age cries for person-
ality; but it will ask in vain, until we let our
children live and learn as personalities, until
we allow them to have their own will, think
their own thoughts, work out their own know-
ledge, form their own judgments; or, to put the
matter briefly, until we cease to suppress
the raw material of personality in schools,
vainly hoping later on in hfe to revive it again.
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