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2 $6 The Century of the Child
against children is to be always talking about
the child.
The sloyd system (manual dexterity, hand-
work, artistic production) has certain good
results on children. Accordingly the sloyd
must be introduced into the school, and all
must be made to share the advantages of this
training; but there are children for whom the
sloyd is as inappropriate and as useless a re-
quirement as learning Latin. The child who
wants to devote himself to his books should
be no more forced to take up the sloyd, than
the child who is happy with lys planing table
should be dragged to literature.
All talk about " harmonious training " must
be given the place where it belongs—in the
pedagogical culinary science. Certainly har-
monious development is the finest result of
man’s training, but it is only to be attained by
his own choice. It implies a harmony between
the real capacities of the individual, not a har-
mony worked up from a pedagogical formula.
The results from the school kneading trough
with its mince-meat processes are something
quite different.
Isolated reforms in the modern school have
no significance; they will continue to have
none, until we prepare for the great revolu-
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