We Imagine That We Want To Escape

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.

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!

Language Grows Out Of Life, Out Of Its Needs And Experiences. 828

We Are Afraid Of Ideas, Of Experimenting, Of Change. We Shrink From Thinking A Problem Through To A Logical Conclusion.