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122 The Century of the Child
be given the chance to declare conscientiously
his independence of a customary usage, of an
ordinary feeHng, for this is the foundation of
the education of an individual, as well as the
basis of a collective conscience, which is the only
kind of conscience men now have. What does
having an individual conscience mean? It
means submitting voluntarily to an external
law, attested and found good by my own con-
science. It means unconditionally heeding
the unwritten law, which I lay upon myself,
and following this inner law even when I must
stand alone against the whole world.
It is a frequent phenomenon, we can al-
most call it a regular one, that it is original
natures, particularly talented beings, who are
badly treated at home and in school. No one
considers the sources of conduct in a child who
shows fear or makes a noise, or who is ab-
sorbed in himself, or who has an impetuous
nature. Mothers and teachers show in this
their pitiable incapacity for the most elemen-
tary part in the art of education, that is, to be
able to see with their own eyes, not with peda-
gogical doctrines in their head.
I naturally expect in the supporters of so-
ciety, with their conventional morality, no
appreciation of the significance of the child’s
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