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The School of the Future 263
handwork, also by gardening and play. Such
training has far greater educational value
than the systematic types. The purposeless-
ness and the uniformity of these are the ter-
ror of youth. Gymnastics should only be
used on days when the weather makes
bodily exercise in the open air impossible;
they can certainly be made more living by be-
ing connected with physiology and hygiene,
just as mathematics can be made real by being
combined with handwork and drawing. But
nothing can equal the value of movement in
the open air.
Besides its garden, the future school will
have its hall. Outside it will have a play-
ground for dancing and really free play—
I
mean the kind of play where children, after
they have learnt the game, are left to them-
selves. Games constantly accompanied by a
teacher make play a parody.
The development of beauty will become the
aim of physical instruction as it once was with
the Greeks, not simply physical strength.
Through different kinds of hand and garden
work, the child will be spared from a number
of requirements in mathematics and physics,
because he will in many things make dis-
coveries himself. In the methods of school
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