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.
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.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
