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The School of the Future 237
dergarten system is, on the contrary, one of
the most effective means to produce the weak
dilletante and the self-satisfied average man.
If there is any further need for the kinder-
garten in the near or distant future, let it be a
place where children may have the same free-
dom as cats or dogs, to play by themselves,
and for themselves, to think out something of
their own, where they can be provided with
means to carry out their own plans, where they
have companions to play with them. A sen-
sible woman may be near at hand to look on
or to supervise, but only to interfere when
the children are likely to hurt themselves. Let
her draw something for them occasionally, tell
them a story, or teach them an amusing game,
but otherwise let her be apparently quite pas-
sive and yet untiringly active in the observation
of the traits of character and of disposition
which play of this free type reveals. In like
manner the mother should observe the play of
children, their treatment of their companions
at play, their inclinations, and collect as much
material as she can but interfere as little di-
rectly as possible. The mother finally by
this constant, many-sided, strenuous, yet pas-
sive kind of observation gets a knowledge of
the child that is partially exact. One being
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