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26o The Century of the Child
The school of the future, which will be a school
for all, will advance general education, but
the plan it follows will be adapted to every
individual. In the school of my dreams
there will be no report books, no rewards, no
examinations; at graduation time examina-
tions will be arranged for but they will be oral.
In them detailed knowledge will not be con-
sidered; education as a whole will determine
the decision of the examiners, who will per-
sonally accompany the children in the open
air in order to become quietly acquainted with
what they know of mankind, of past and
present history.
And the education which will make the
training aim at this end will be diametrically
opposed to that given by the teacher of the
present day. The teacher will be required to
make his own observations, he will guide the
scholar in the choice of books, and show him
how to work. But he will not give first his
own observation, judgment, and knowledge in
the form of lectures, preparations, and ex-
periments. Occasionally he will without giv-
ing notice ask for an oral or written account
of work, and so ascertain how thoroughly the
scholar has gone into the subject. At another
time, when he knows that the scholar is pre-
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