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The School of the Future 275
In scientific study and in teaching mathe-
matics, the men prominent in science and in
discovery will find a place. Geography
hrings up points of view related to almost
every study, and experience already acquired
gives good reason for making this subject the
centre of all instruction.
What are the resnlts of the present-day
school ? Exhausted brain power, weak nerves,
limited originality, paralysed initiative, dulled
power of observing surrounding facts, ideal-
ism blunted under the feverish zeal of getting
a position in the class—a wild chase in which
parents and children regard the loss of a year
as a great misfortune. After the examina-
tions have been passed and the year gone by,
the best students realise the need of beginning
their studies in a living way at almost every
point. The majority of students are unable
to read even a paper with any real profit, and
those who are given a book in a foreign lan-
guage to which they have devoted innumerable
hours, very seldom understand it completely,
unless the language instruction of the school
has been supplemented at home. The inca-
pacity to observe for one’s self, to get at the
bottom of what is observed and reflect upon
it, is constantly more remarkable, as a result
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