Why, It Is As Easy To Teach

I Am Beginning To Suspect All Elaborate And Special Systems Of Education. They Seem To Me To Be Built Up On The Supposition That Every Child Is A Kind Of Idiot Who Must Be Taught To Think.

Too Often, I Think, Children Are Required To Write Before They Have Anything To Say. Teach Them To Think And Read And Talk Without Self-repression, And They Will Write Because They Cannot Help It.

It Is A Rare Privilege To Watch The Birth, Growth, And First Feeble Struggles Of A Living Mind; This Privilege Is Mine.

The Processes Of Teaching The Child That Everything Cannot Be As He Wills It Are Apt To Be Painful Both To Him And To His Teacher.

Our Material Eye Cannot See That A Stupid Chauvinism Is Driving Us From One Noisy, Destructive, Futile Agitation To Another.