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262 The Century of the Child
plele method of work and of expression.
This is what training, what education is.
Text-books will be attractive and virile, the
" Reader " will disappear, the complete books
in the original (the text may be revised if it
is filled with confusing details) will be placed
in the hands of children. The school library
will be the largest, most beautiful, and im-
portant room; lending books in the schools
will be an essential part of the curriculum.
The future school of my dreams will be sur-
rounded by large gardens, where, as in already-
existing schools in some places, the feeling
for beauty will be directly encouraged. The
individual scholars will arrange the flowers in
the school and at home. They will take them
home in order to adorn the window garden,
and every schoolroom in winter will have a
garden of this kind. This will be the natural
method of making the simplest of all esthetic
enjoyments a universal need. But taste
must not be developed by instruction in the
art of arranging flowers ; this is to be attained
only by pointing out those that have been ar-
ranged in the most beautiful way. In this
as in all other things, self-help is essential.
Natural dexterity will be attained by book-
binding, turning, and other kinds of
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