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chanical, the example of Socrates and the peripatetic 

 school to the contrary notwithstanding. 



With our method, we not only managed to avoid 

 the handicap of a poor school, but the whole Borsodi 

 family seemed to be going to school. But it proved to 

 be a school so different from that to which most of us 

 have become accustomed that I have had to invent a 

 special name for it the school of living. 



In this school the members of the family, old and 

 young, and those who have lived with us, have been 

 both faculty and students. The subject which they 

 studied has been living, the pedagogic system has been 

 what might be called the work-play method, the text- 

 books have been anything and everything printed 

 which touched upon the problems of the good life in 

 any way. The absence of formality in this school 

 may deceive the uninitiated, and the fact that a sys- 

 tematic educational activity is going forward may be 

 overlooked. For that reason I once put down the vari- 

 ous projects which have in one way or another been 

 the subjects of our study, and found that they formed 

 a fairly comprehensive curriculum falling into four 

 major divisions Art and Science, Management, His- 

 tory, Philosophy. 



Philosophy is a subject remote and distant from life 

 as it comes to most people in school. Yet there is no 

 reason why it should be. We need desperately philos- 

 ophy as a guide to life. We need it as a tool with which 

 to train thought logic for everyday use. But we 



