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Show I What Children Should Know I Leo Tolstoi Says Teach Them "Equality" in H Preference to Anything Else. H Count LcoTulstoi, Die famous litis-H litis-H slan peasant writer, In touching upon M i education tells "What the Child fl ' should Know," and in the following H portrajs that which wo believe every H parent should read carcsully and H thoughtfully. Tolstoi says: M "I think the first condition of a gcod M education Is that the child should H know that all he uses does nut fall H from Heaven ready-made, but Is pro-H pro-H duccd by other people's labor To tin-H tin-H tlcrstaml that all hu lives on comes H from the labor of other people who H neither know nor loe lilin.U too much B for a child (God Kraut he may under-H under-H stand it when he Is grown up); but to M understand that the bools and galosh-H galosh-H cs ho always puis on clean arc cleaned H In the same way not out of love for fl him, but for some other reason m Itc H unintelligible to him Isbomcthlng he H can and should understand, and of H which lis should be ashamed. If he Is M not ashamed and If he continues to H use them, that is the very worst cornel corn-el mcnccmcnt of ar. education, and It H leaves tho deepest traces for his whole M life. To avoid that, however, Is very B simple, and Is just what (to use poetic M Unguagc), standing on thu Ihreshold H of the grave, 1 beseech ou lo do for M yourchildicn hot them do all they M can for themselves, carry out their M own slops. All thelrown Jugs, wash up, M arrange their rooms, clean their boots B and shoes, l.iy thu table, etc Itelleve mcthat, unhnportant as these things may seem, they uro a hundred times moro Important for jour children's I happiness than a knowledge of French I or of history It Is true that here iho chief dlillculty crops up: childten do Hi willingly only what their parent' do, and thcrcfoic 1 beg of joii, do these things. This will effect two objects at once, It makes It possible to leain less, by tilling the time In the most uscsul and natural way, and It trains the children to simplicity, to work, and to self-dependence I'lcase to do this. You will be grallllcd from the first mouth, and tho children more so. If to this you can add work on tho land, If It be but a kitchen-garden, that will be well; though it often becomes a mere pastime. Tho necessity neces-sity of attending to one's own needs and carrying out ono's own slops Is admitted by all. the best schools, such as Hcdale, where tho director himself takes a sharo in such work, llcllcve me, that without that condition there is no possibility of a moral education, a Christian education, or a consciousness conscious-ness of the fact that all men arc brothers and equals. A child may yet understand that a grown-up man, his father a banker or a turner, an artist or an overseer, who by his work feeds the whole family may free himself from occupations which prevent his giving all his time to his profitable work. Hut how can a child, as yet untried and unablo to do anything, explain to himself that others do for him what he naturally should do for himself The only explanation for him Is that people arc divided Into two classes masters and slaves; and howrvcr much wo may talk to him In words about equality and the brotherhood brother-hood of man, all the conditions of his life, ftom Ills getting up, to his even-In? even-In? meal, show him the contrary. |