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242 The Century of the Child
emancipated from the burden of learning by
heart," from the forms of system, from the
pressure of the crowd, in those years while the
quiet, secret work of the soul is as vital for
them as the growing of the seed in the earth.
The kindergarten system is opposed to this;
it is forcing up the seed to life on a plate,
where it looks very pretty, but only for the
time being.
The school with its esprit de corps opens
the way public lack of conscience. Modern
society manages thus to reproduce the crimes
of every past period; manages too, to repro-
duce them through men who are conscientious
in their own private life. For those without
consciences, who lead criminal movements,
would never be able to put the masses of peo-
ple in motion, unless they were just masses
and nothing more; unless they were made to
follow collective laws of honour, collective pa-
triotic feelings, collective conceptions of duty.
The child learns to be obedient to his school,
to be loyal to his comrades, just as later on in
life he learns these qualities as they are pre-
sented in his university, his student society,
and his profession. All of this he learns sooner
than to reverence his conscience, his feeling of
right, his individual impulse. He learns to
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