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236 The Century of the Child
three years up, they are made to appear be-
fore the public in crowds, made to work on
the one plan, made to do the same petty,
idiotic, and useless tasks. In this way, we be-
lieve at the present time that we are forming
men, while actually we are only training units.
Any one who remembers how, as a child, he
played on the beach or in the wood, in a big
nursery or in an old-fashioned attic, or has
seen other children playing in these surround-
ings, will know how such unrestrained play
deepens the soul, increases the capacity for
invention, and stimulates the imagination a
hundredfold more than children’s games and
occupations devised by the arrangement, and
promoted by the interference, of elder persons.
Adults are accustomed to amuse children in
crowds, a custom which comes from intellec-
tual vulgarity, instead of leaving them alone
to amuse themselves. Besides this system en-
courages children to produce what they do not
need, and leads them to imagine that they are
working by so doing. Children should be
taught to despise all the numerous unneces-
sary things which put life on a false level and
make it artificial. They should be taught to
try to simplify it, to aim for its supreme values
;
this should be the end of education. The kin-
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