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The School of the Future 279
no creative enjoyment; handwork will be again
a portion of man’s happiness; we shall live
through a second Renaissance, the renewal of
the personal joy which the man of earlier
times experienced when the artistic moulding,
when the rich, coloured tapestry, the beautiful
piece of carving came from his own hand.
The present school system leads to the fabri-
cation of unnecessary articles by the dozen.
It does not lead to a true love and appreciation
of professional work, that love and apprecia-
tion from which, in the great period of art,
artistic production organically arose.
The present system, in all fields of study,
limits the natural capacity of the child in the
concentration, the combination, and develop-
ment of its powers. When it produces its
best results, it turns children at the close of
their school years into pocket encyclopedias,
representing humanity’s progress and know-
ledge. Only when such results as these cease
to be called a harmonious development, will it
be conceded that the school can and should
have no other meaning than to give the child a
preparation for continuing, through his whole
life, the work of training and education. Only
then will the school become a place where in-
dividuals get learning to last a lifetime, not
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