His feeble-minded brother conceived the brilliant
idea of checkmating the little robbers by not planting any outside rows.
The Farmers improved on this plan by planting an extra outside row for
the gray thieves to feed on.
CHAPTER VII
THE SCHOOL
Education at Brook Farm began in the kindergarten--only we did not know
it. The word was not in the dictionaries of that period, and Froebel was
yet to be heard of in Massachusetts; but the rudiments of the
kindergarten system were devised and put in practice by our folk in
response to a new demand. The little ones, too old for the nursery and
too young for the school, demanded some adequate provision for their
care while their mothers were at work. In the community the one person
best suited to fill any requirement was directed to the undertaking by
natural selection. This was one of the normal though scarcely recognized
results of the organization of industry Among the many workers there was
always one who could do whatever was to be done better than any of the
others, and to this one, young or old, man or woman, full charge of the
work was given.
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