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The School of the Future 265
direct artistic instruction, either in the school
or when visiting museums. Classes can per-
haps get such knowledge when taken around
museums; but love for art can only be gained
when the scholar is surrounded by art; when
he can absorb it in peace and freedom. Let
this quiet progress be anticipated by instruc-
tion—I don’t mean the admiring criticism of
the teacher himself, which he in passing ex-
presses without explanation or questioning
—
and the inevitable result is troubling the water
of a living well. Interference here, as in all
other cases, destroys the individual pleasure
of discovery. Constantly being taken about
really impairs the capacity for seeing for one-
self. In art, in literature, and in religion, all
instruction is a mistake until the young mind
has chosen some part of it as an object to be
known. Knowledge destroys, feeling creates,
life. But the roots of feeling are easily
injured.
As to visits to museums under the direction
of a teacher, they are only of use when the
scholar has previously made, on his own ac-
count, his own discoveries. To these he should
be stimulated by the teacher. When occu-
pied in the study of Greek history, he will be
asked for a description of Greek sculpture
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