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The School of the Future 2 53
the people are educated in the schools, how the
material is used, what subjects are pursued
in them are the momentous questions.
Goethe’s saying that " fortune is the de-
velopment of our capacities " is as applicable
to children as to adults. What these capaci-
ties are can be determined soon in the case of
the talented child; his future can be secured
by obtaining for him the possibility of such a
development. But there are common capaci-
ties, proper to every normal human being, and
from their development, fortune too can be
the outcome. Among such capacities is mem-
ory, which modern man has nearly destroyed.
" We throw ashes," says Max Miiller, " every
day on the glowing coals of memory while
men of past ages could retain in their minds
the treasures of our present literature.’* To
these capacities belong, among others, power
of thought, not in the sense of philosophic
thinking, but in the simpler use of the word,
gifts of observation, ability to draw conclu-
sions and to exercise judgment. Of the com-
mon universal human faculties the emotions
suffer most at the hand of the modern school.
One of the fundamentally wrong pedagogi-
cal assumptions, is that mathematics and
grammar develop the understanding. This
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