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The School of the Futuft 281
self his individual methods. Positions will he
given only after a year’s trial. When this
period is passed the teachers will not be
tested by the examiner alone, one who has fol-
lowed the instruction given by them during
the year, but the children themselves will also
be heard from on this question. Of course, no
absolute value can be assigned to the judg-
ment of children, but nevertheless it has a really
great importance. The instinct of the child
chooses with astonishing accuracy what is first-
class. But what, in the case of the child, has
this character? This question has been an-
swered by Goethe, " The greatest fortune of
the earth’s children is personality alone."
At the present time objectivity in instruc-
tion is exalted, but every great educator has
achieved success by being entirely subjective.
The teacher should be a lover of truth. There-
fore he should never force a resisting object to
serve his own views. As a result of this at-
titude, the more subjective he is, the better.
The fuller and richer he communicates to the
children the essence and power of his own
view of life and his own character, so much the
more will he forward their real development,
provided, however, that he does not force upon
them his opinions with the claim of infallibility.
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