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The School of the Future 261
pared for it, he will give a general treatment,
a comprehensive review of the subject, a stim-
ulating and stirring impression, as a reward
for independent work. Finally, when the
scholar wishes it, he will examine him formally,
but his real work will be to teach the scholar
to make his own observations, to solve his own
problems, to find his own aids to study in
books, dictionaries, maps, etc., to fight his way
through his own difiiculties to victory and so
reach the only moral reward for his trouble
with broadened insight and increased strength.
The scholar who sits down and listens to,
or looks at, the demonstration or experiment
of the teacher does not learn to observe, nor
does he whose exercise book is corrected with
painful accuracy learn to write; nor does the
one who pedantically carries out the system
of models in the sloyd system learn to make
articles fit for every-day use. The student
must make his investigations himself, he must
find the mistakes himself when their presence
is indicated to him, he must himself think out
the objects brought before him. Above all,
the separate errors must not be corrected ex-
cept when they are so constant and serious
that they waste time. But the scholar him-
self must try to find out the correct and com-
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