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The School of the Future 23 5
extremely nervous temperament, caused by
weak will or depression.
Mary WoUstonecraft’s remarks, made more
than a hundred years ago, still call for our ap-
proval. " If children are not physically mur-
dered by their ignorant mothers, they are
ruined psychically by the inability of the
mother to bring them upl’^ Mothers, in those
first six years that determine the whole de-
velopment of the child’s character, turn them
over to the hands of servants, whose authority
is often undermined by the way in which they
are treated. Then children are passed on to
school to control the bad behaviour which
the vigilance of the mother could have pre-
vented, and which she controls with means that
become the basis for all kinds of vices." But
because such cases are still frequent and be-
cause there will always be mothers incapable
of bringing their children up, it would be a
premature assumption to believe that the ma-
jority of women cannot be trained to become
parents, if the development of the woman has
this end in view. One of the tasks of the fu-
ture is the creation of a generation of trained
mothers, who among other things will eman-
cipate children from the kindergarten system.
Children are handled in crowds from two and
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