Capitolo 95
what it will teach him to direct his/her his/her own activities and to repair them to
those of other people. We am not prepared that thousand of industrialist
workers will put all of their activity and they will be tired in services from
what as a whole community reaps the benefit, while them mental
the conceptions and code of morals are narrow and intact from some lifting
what probable is that the conscience of social value gives them.
We am impatient with the schools that placed every stress on to read and
writing, suspecting them to remain on the assumption that the all'ordine of the day
experiments of the life it is worth few, and that every knowledge and interest
you/he/she must have brought his/her children through the mean of books. Such
assumption fails to give some clews to his/her/their child to the life around him, or
some power to usefully or intelligently connects him with him. This is able
is illustrated from observations done in a great placed Italian colony
to Chicago, his/her children from that, to a large extent, it is expeditious to the
public schools.
The members of the Italian colony are greatly of South
Italy,--Calabrian and Sicilian, or Neapolitan farmers from the
the quarters of workingmen of that city. They has come to America with the
purpose separate of to earn money, and finding more room for the energies of
their children and they. In almost all cases of theirs they mean to return
again, simply because their imaginations cannot paint a continuous
life street from the old outskirtses. Their experiences in Italy have
is those some simple activity to the open one, and their ideas have come
directly to them from their struggle with Nature,--such a hand-to-hand
lotteries as place of takings when every man greatly finds his/her way of living through
his/her his/her own crop of the ground, or with utensils simply shaped by his
own hands. The women, as in every primitive life, you/he/she has had more
diversified activity that the men. They has cooked, spun, and
worked to sweater, besides their almost equal job in the fields. Very little