Thursday, June 02, 2005
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to be built on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table while a syrupy-voiced teacher suggest that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower pots. Such "teaching" fills the mind with artificial associations which must be gotten rid of, before the child can develop any independent ideas out of actual experience.
~Anne Sullivan
~Anne Sullivan
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