Let us hear what she and Mr. Lindsey have to say about Tony--(Tony is a boy who does not like school as it is at present organized). "Mr. Edison is coming to the rescue of Tony," says Judge Lindsey. "He will take him away from me and put him in a school that is not a school at all but just one big game.... There will be something moving, something doing at that school all the time. When I tell him about it Tony shouts 'Hooray for Mr. Edison!' right in front of the battery, just as he used to say 'To hell wid de cop!'" On the other hand:--"The old time teacher," says Miss Repplier, "sought to spur the pupil to keen and combative effort, rather than beguile him into knowledge with cunning games and lantern slides.... The old time parent set a high value on self discipline and self control." But can she believe for one moment that Tony's parents ever dreamed of "setting a high value on self discipline and self control?" Or that Tony's sister was taught to "read aloud with correctness and expression, to write notes with propriety and grace, and to play backgammon and whist?" ... _Figurez-vous!_ And so, if we can reach little Tony's darkened vision by the simple method of moving pictures, keep him off the streets until he learns at least not to become a hardened criminal--are we not that much to the good? Tony will never, never be ambassador to the court of St. James (or if he is going to be, he'll be it in spite of movies!) but he may be a fairly honest, happy fruit vendor some day, instead of No. 207 in a cell. Useless to cite the dull boys in school, who absolutely refused pedagogic training and later blazed their way--luminaries--through the world, when once they had found the work that interested them. To interest, stimulate, and arouse is the prelude to work; and precious few kiddies, except those who don't really need it, do enough work that they dislike to strengthen their little characters. But even if they do, are those who will not to have nothing? Of course, education is a thing that can't be disposed of in a few well meaning phrases. Miss Repplier may be right, too, in what she says of the education of Montaigne. You remember he learned to talk Latin under a tutor, at an early age, in much the same way that our modern young ones learn French and German.