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CHAPTER VI
THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
I SHOULD like to set down here briefly my
dreams of a future school, in which the per-
sonality may receive a free and complete self-
development. I purposely say " dreams,"
because I do not want any one to believe that
I am pretending in the following outline to
give a reformed programme for the present
time.
My first dream is that the kindergarten
and the primary school will be everywhere re-
placed by instruction at home.
Undoubtedly a great influence has pro-
ceeded from that whole movement which has
resulted, among other things, in the Pesta-
lozzi-Froebel kindergartens, and in institu-
tions modelled after them. Better teachers
have been produced by it; but what I regard
as a great misfortune, is the increasing inclin-
ation to look upon the creche, the kindergar-
ten, and the school as the ideal scheme of
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