If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
From Anne Sullivan
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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