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The result begins to be seen. 



I have now tried to express my conviction 

 that a natural and direct kind of education is 

 slowly developing in our midst, and that the 

 process is founded on the normal human life 

 of the time. It is slowly shaping the common 

 activities into educational form, and making 

 them the means of sound mental discipline ; 

 and this is the only way whereby education 

 can be carried to the mass of the people. 



It will make the people efficient; and it will 

 eventually obliterate pernicious distinction be- 

 tween the hand-worker and the remainder of 

 mankind, and will make for both individual 

 and corporate honesty. 



The world is full of those who want to do so- 

 called "mental work," clerks, bookkeepers, 

 counter-jumpers, and office servants of all kinds, 

 often driven to do work for the merest pittance ; 

 and yet we have difficulty in finding skilled and 

 independent artisans, although the work of the 

 expert artisan is of the higher grade. The 

 people themselves seem always to have believed 

 in the educational value of the common activi- 



