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244 The Century of the Child
Both for the development of individuality,
as well as for the cultivation of the emotions,
the home is to be preferred to the kindergarten
and to the school. In the limited small circle
of the home the emotional element can be deep-
ened and tenderness can be developed, by the
acts called for in the realities of domestic life.
The kindergarten first, and then the school,
free children from their natural individual ob-
ligations and put in their place demands that
can only be fulfilled en masse. The child en-
ters into a number of superficial relations.
This situation tends to make his emotions
superficial; here is the great danger of begin-
ning school life at a tender age. On the other
hand a one-sided home life brings with it the
danger of concentrating the emotions to an
excess. Education at home in the years when
the emotions become harmonious and receive
their decisive training is just as important
for the child as is later on a pleasant sociable
life with others of the same age, after the
twelfth year is passed. All intellectual culti-
vation done according to the most excellent
method, all social feelings, are worthless un-
less they have as their basis an individual
development of the emotions. Somewhere in
our body we must have a heart, to act as a
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