full attention to cultivation of will-power and decision, it must implant in the hearts of the young from child¬ hood onwards joy in responsibility and courage to own up to faults.
Scientific training, which to-day is the be-all and end-all of all State education, can be adopted by the national State, with certain alterations, which may be considered under three heads.
In the first place, the youthful brain must not be burdened with subjects, ninety per cent, of which it does not need and therefore forgets again. Take, for instance, an ordinary State official, who has passed out of the Gymnasium (public day school) or the Oberreal¬ schule (modern school), in his thirty-sixth or fortieth year. How little he has retained of all that was crammed into him !
The system of teaching, which I indicate generally, will be quite sufficient for the majority of young people ; whilst the others, who will need a language, for instance, later on, will be enabled to build upon it and study it exhaustively of their own free choice.