Excerpt from The Place of Individual InstructionNow as to the children. The change in their case was just as striking and just as sudden as in the case of the teacher. Almost instantly it became manifest that no child in that room was under the harrow; no child there was fighting down a bitter thought or stiing a sob; no child there was breaking its heart in pathetic silence; no child there was wearily waiting for the great machine to move on; no child there was turning in desperation to that well-known party who always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do All were infused with the spirit Of zealous enterprise, and the upraised hands and bright, cheer ful faces eloquently reected the happiness that was singing at the heart. I know that it is dangerous to begin picturing an elysium. But when the elysium is a fact you can afford to wait for credence. And when the elysium follows something like an inferno you with difficulty refrain from publishing it from the house tops.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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