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2 76 The Century of the Child
of the preparation system at school, even when
this is aided by the mothers hearing lessons at
home. The late Professor Key said that it was
his experience, as teacher in a medical institu-
tion, that scholars in school were incapable of
seeing, thinking, or working. I have heard
the same observation made in Stockholm
lately in a government office, that the young
men were incapable of taking up practical
duties in which they should have shown the
knowledge they were supposed to have after
the fine examination they had passed. The
system then does not serve even secondary
ends ; to all the higher aims of human existence
it is directly opposed.
In the course of a hundred years or so, ex-
perience of this sort will cause the downfall
of the system. Then, perhaps, these dreamed-
of schools will arise. In them, the youth will
learn first of all to observe and to love life,
and their own powers will be consciously cul-
tivated as the highest values in life. By mix-
ing children of all classes together, the upper
class, provided it still exists, will get that
" colouring of earnest character which it now
lacks," as Almquist said long ago; the lower
classes will get the polish, that general culti-
vation they now lack. Through these schools,
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