" Let Him Rummage "

At the ninth conference of the New Ideals in Education Movement recently held at Oxford an exhibition of pictures by children in Professor Cizek's Art School in Vienna created a considerable sensation. Some of the pictures by children of 12 or 13 were extraordinary. Speaking of them Professor Cizek said: " When a child comes here I don't tell him what to do. I bring him into the storeroom and let him rummage through all my treasures--paints and brushes, chalks and canvas, wood for carving, clay for modeling . . . and he soon finds out what he wants to do and he does it."