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The School of the Future 239
knows that he is naughty, and wants to he
naughty, is called obdurate and impertinent,
while this statement is really a self-confession
and shows a character to which one may ap-
peal with the best results. The child, sunk
in thought, who forgets the small things of
daily life, people call thoughtless. Even when
a child is really selfish and is really lying or
lazy, these characteristics are treated as if they
were something individual, while actually they
are caused often by some serious fault which
must be dealt with. These characteristics can
proceed from a good quality which may be de-
stroyed, if the fault is not treated suitably.
But even parents who now observe their
children with more psychological insight than
was used in earlier times are not able to study
them, if their children go to school and kinder-
garten at an early age. This want of insight
produces mistakes which often cause deep an-
tagonisms between children and their parents,
the sort of thing which now embitters so many
households. Only fathers and mothers who
reverence the individuality of their children,
and combine with this feeling a careful obser-
vation of them through their whole life, are
able to avoid this typical fault of our own
time. People expect to gather grapes from
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