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The School of the Future 269
people who have not sufficient imagination to
see how their acts affect others.
In my dreamed-of school, founded along
these lines, there is perfect freedom in selecting
subjects. The school offers the subjects, but
it forces no one to take them. English, Ger-
man, French, natural science, mathematics,
history, and geography are taught. The
mother tongue is practiced fluently in speak-
ing, reading, and writing. But in this case
grammar is superfluous both for general edu-
cation and for using a language ; it belongs to
scientific study, not to general culture.
Grammar should be applied in the case of
foreign languages, only so far as it is abso-
lutely necessary to appreciate the literature.
This is the sole aim general culture has in view.
Those who wish to speak the languages flu-
ently, and write them correctly, must attain
facility by continual study. Those who have
mastered the literature very easily learn the
rest. Those who are familiar with the litera-
ture of a foreign language, write it, even with
the mistakes they make, better than the per-
son who has put together a perfectly correct
composition according to grammatical rules.
After the child, in his language study, has
made enough progress to understand a fairly
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