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246 The Century of the Child
full insight into the peculiar character of per-
sonality, into the ways in which knowledge
must be placed before different individuals,
into the right time for taking a subject or
giving it up. The home school must be
considered the ideal method where the child
studies with a small group of well-selected
companions. Individuality can be considered,
plans of study and courses can be neglected.
Through such neglect only, is a real living
instruction possible. The advantages the
modern school has over the home are hardly
worth discussing. The order of the school,
its method, system, and discipline, so much
praised by its advocates as advantages, are,
from my point of view, nothing but disad-
vantages. Habits of fulfilling duties, or
work, orderly and punctual activity, that be-
long to a sound education, can be attained in
the home school through far less artificial
means. Of course it is urged as another ad-
vantage of the school that the school child
becomes a member of a small community
where he learns social duties. But the home
is the natural community where the child, in
full seriousness, learns the real social duties
of readiness to help, and readiness to act,
while the present-day school artificially re-
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