SCHOOLS AND FARMING 



tools or means to be used in the acquiring 

 of knowledge and power. Of course, the 

 pursuit of them is an educational process ; 

 but the basis of education is at first to 

 develop the child by means of his activities 

 and of the things that make up his world: 

 he needs reading, 'riting, and Arithmetic to 

 enable him to make use of his world and to 

 understand it. 



Similarly, "good order" or discipline is 

 not an end in itself. By focusing atten- 

 tion, it develops the mind to follow a given 

 line of thought and to be undiverted. It 

 has its moral significance. But many 

 teachers seem to act on the principle that 

 there is virtue in the very act of sitting 

 still and of not whispering. The school of 

 the future will have the activities of life in 

 it; and the "order" of the school-room 

 will be the order that is naturally a part of 

 the work that the pupils do$ not the order 

 imposed by the ruler. The only real school 

 discipline, in the end, is the natural con- 

 trol that the subject and the teaching hold 

 over the pupil; it is the pupiPs interest in 

 his work. The larger part of the really 

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