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250 The Century of the Child
ginal people, the argument urged here is an
application of the biblical axiom, that from him
who has nothing even the little will be taken
away. I mean the individual who has no dis-
tinct personality will be forced in the school to
give up the little that he can call his own. The
old-fashioned school where a few subjects were
learnt by heart, where the teachers were often
badly prepared, where the students could go
to sleep or pretend to learn, where the courses
were simple and attention concentrated on
Latin, seems barbarous to us. But it had less
danger for the personality than the present-
day school with its thorough preparation, its
interest in readings, its perfected methods,
its capital instructors who take every little
stone out of the student’s road, and prepare as
much delightful intellectual nourishment as
possible, sometimes even in a cooked-up form.
This " good school " with its over-insistence
on versatility is responsible for the nervous-
ness of our day. Its general intellectual
apathy has caused the negativeness of our
times.
The quietest, most obedient child is thought
the best pupil, that is, the most impersonal
individual is the model. So we see how the
school confuses its conception of values. The
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