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The School of the Future 28.^
the young will be initiated into the art of life.
I mean by this the art of making one’s own
personality, one’s own existence, an object of
artistic interest and pursuit. The initiation
will be conducted by a wise man, or by a
woman who has kept her youthfulness, so that
she understands the joys and pains of the
young, their play and their seriousness, their
dreams and aspirations, their faults and their
dangers—^leaders who can give indirect sug-
gestions how young people should play their
own melodies in the orchestra of life.
My school will not come into existence while
governments make their greatest sacrifices
for militarism. Only when this tendency is
overcome, a point in development will be
reached, where one can see that the dearest
school programme is also the cheapest. Peo-
ple will realise that strong manly brains and
heart have the greatest social value. I have
already said that this is no reform plan for the
present that I am outlining here, only a dream
for the future. But in our wonderful exist-
ence dreams are becoming at last actual
realities.^
1 Since I wrote the above, there have been founded in
England, France, also in Norway, reformed schools, work-
ing more or less in the direction I have outlined.
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