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The School of the Future 249
ings their training. In this respect Goethe’s
education was ideal, considered apart from
some pedantry due to his father’s influence.
At his mother’s work-table he learnt to know
the Bible; French he learnt from a theatrical
company; English from a language master,
in company with his father ; Italian, because he
heard his sister being taught the language;
mathematics from a friend in the household,
a study which Goethe applied immediately,
first in cardboard diagrams, later in architec-
tural drawings. His essays he prepared in the
form of a correspondence in different lan-
guages between different relatives, scattered in
various parts of the world. Geography he eag-
erly studied in books of travel in order to be
able to give his narrative local colour. He
knocked about with his father, learnt to ob-
serve different kinds of handwork, and also
to try himself small experiments of his own
skill.
But some one may say, all men are not
geniuses, and accordingly the majority without
distinct talent need the school. Is it possible
that the connection between originality and ir-
regular attendance at school is merely acciden-
tal? How often does the school sin in its
watering down of originality! As for unori-
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