The air of the school is electrical with energy.

We are obviously in the presence of an active and vigorous life.
And the activity of the Utopian child is his own activity.

It is a fountain which springs up in himself.

Unlike the ordinary school-child, he can do things on his own account.

He does not wait, in the helplessness of passive obedience, for his teacher to tell him what he is to do and how he is to do it.