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210 The Century of the Child
ily can undertake itself. While families
complain of overstrain, but make no use of the
elective system in schools, where it has been
introduced, while parents are willing to risk
nothing to realise their principles, we cannot
wonder that the state does not embark on re-
forms of any kind.
There is an old pedagogical maxim, " Man
learns for life not for school." While, for a
great part of their time, the sexes are separated
from one another, boys studying by themselves
and the girls by themselves, the training for
their future life is a bad one—a life in which
the common work and co-operation between
man and woman is, according to nature’s or-
dinance, the normal thing. So long as the
general school is a school for a special class,
and not for everybody, it is no general school
in the high sense of the word, and besides no
school in which people learn for life.
I have therefore always warmly held that
the school should be no boys’, no girls’ school,
no elementary and no people’s school, but
should be a real general or public school as in
America, where both sexes, the children of all
grades of society, will learn that mutual con-
fidence, respect, understanding, by which their
efficient co-operation in the family and state
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