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The School of the Future 247
places that domestic social education, of which
the child is now robbed by studies at school
and preparation at home. The real value of
school life among companions can be had
from the home school without its ordinary-
dangers. These dangers are not only evil in-
fluences, but, more than anything else, that
collective process of reaching a standard of
stupidity, due to the pressure of public opinion
that comes from association in masses. The
fear of common opinion, of being laughed at,
is created in the receptive years of childhood,
so open to such influences. The slightest de-
viation in dress, or taste, is criticised unspar-
ingly. If an investigation were conducted
on the sufferings of children through the tyr-
anny of their fellows, a tyranny which some-
times takes harsher, sometimes milder forms,
it would upset the prejudice that the usefulness
of the school in this respect cannot be replaced.
Besides there is the levelling pressure of a
uniform discipline, which stunts personality
from above, while life with school companions
restricts it on all sides. Every criticism on
this formal pedantry is met with the answer,
" In a school it is absolutely impossible to per-
mit children to do what can be done in the
household; only fancy if all children in the
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