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The School of the Future 241
above, the school; and from this they then go
out put up in packages.
The aim of school training is to carry out,
with all its might, production by quantities
that expresses the demands of our time in all
spheres. The invention of individual school
methods may reduce the influence of " canned
education."
As long as there are large cities, poor child-
ren in them must be able to obtain the possi-
bilities of country children. Their playthings
must be made out of the world which sur-
rounds them. The obligations of their own
home must supply them with work. This is
altogether different from the play work of the
kindergarten that has no connection with the
seriousness of reality. A wise mother or
teacher will adopt from the kindergarten sys-
tem just so much as will enable her to teach
children to observe nature and their surround-
ings; will take from it what enables her to
make them combine their activity with some
useful end; their amusement with some kind
of knowledge.
The Froebel dictum, " Let us live for the
children," must be changed into a more signifi-
cant phrase, " Let us allow the children to live."
This, among other things, means " let them be
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