What will happen to them when that motive is withdrawn, as it will be when the child becomes the adolescent?
His education has been distasteful to the child, partly because his teachers have assumed from the outset that it would be and must be so, but chiefly because in their ignorance they have taken pains to make it so, his school life having been so ordered as to combine the maximum of strain with the maximum of _ennui_.

His teachers have done everything for him, except those mechanical and monotonous exercises which they felt they might trust him to do by himself.

Some of his mental faculties have become stunted and atrophied through lack of exercise.

Others have been allowed to wither in the bud.

If he happens to belong to the "masses," he will have completed his school education at the age of thirteen or fourteen.