Children Require Guidance And Sympathy Far More

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.

I Am Beginning To Suspect All Elaborate And Special Systems Of Education. They Seem To Me To Be Built Upon The Supposition That Every Child Is A Kind Of Idiot Who Must Be Taught To Think. Whereas If The Child Is Left To Himself, He Will Think More And Better , If Less "showily." Let Him Come And Go Freely, Let Him Touch Real Things And Combine His Impressions For Himself... Teaching Fills The Mind With Artificial Associations That Must Be Got Rid Of Before The Child Can Develop Independent Ideas Out Of Actual Experiences.

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.

If My Parents Didn't Push Me And Didn't Support Education, I Probably Wouldn't Be Here Today.... Regardless Of Whatever They Went Through And How They May Have Been Treated, They Felt Education Was Important. So, It's Easier When You Have The Parents Who Support It, Rather Than Those Who Don't.

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