These the children read in school and out of school, and are thus brought into communication with other minds, with other times, with other lands.
They are also accustomed to talk freely to one another about the books that they are reading.

Whatever lesson may be going on, they are encouraged to ask questions about the matter in hand, and even to express their own views about it.

They go out into the playground in groups and make up games and plays, discussing things freely among themselves.

When they are preparing to act an historical scene or a passage from some dramatic author, they hold a sort of informal parliament, in which the actors are selected and various important questions are provisionally settled.

They write letters in school to real people.