Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.
Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.