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264 The Century of the Child
drudgery the child learns that a seed grows
by warmth and moisture. In real training,
the child himself sows the seed and sees what
happens to it; this system is followed I believe
in many schools, but only as proofs of a given
abstract statement. The mistake of the mod-
ern school is really just here; it illustrates its
course of instruction by, as it were, over-
charging the child’s attention, instead of giv-
ing him time and opportunity to originate
for himself.
In the future school-building, there will be
no class-rooms at all, but different halls with
ample material provided for different subjects,
and, by the side of them, rooms for work where
each scholar will have a place assigned to him
for private study. Common examinations
will only take place when several scholars are
ready and willing, anxious to be examined on
the same subject; and each student can ask
for the examination independent of the rest.
In eveiy room, on the outside of the build-
ing, architecture and decoration will form a
beautiful whole; and the artistic objects, de-
tached from the building, for the adornment
of the school will be partly originals, partly
casts and copies of famous originals.
The sense for art will not be awakened by
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