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Education 165
and other girls of the same age were so tired
of the system of vigilance, protection, amuse-
ment, and pampering at school and at home,
that they were determined to bring up their
own children in hunger, corporal discipline,
and drudgery.
One can understand this unfortunate re-
action against an artificial environment; the
environment in which children and young peo-
ple of the present grow up; an existence that
evokes a passionate desire for the realities of
life, for individual action at one’s own risk and
responsibility, instead of being, as is now the
case, at home and in the school, the object of
another’s care.
What is required, above all, for the children
of the present day, is to be assigned again real
home occupations, tasks they must do consci-
entiously, habits of work arranged for week
days and holidays without oversight, in every
case where the child can help himself. In-
stead of the modern school child having a
mother and servants about him to get him
ready for school and to help him to remember
things, he should have time every day be-
fore school to arrange his room and brush his
clothes, and there should be no effort to make
him remember what is connected with the
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