Education, For Most People, Means Trying To

Intelligence Is What You Use When You Don't Know What To Do.

True Interest Appears When The Self Identifies Itself With Ideas Or Objects, When It Finds In Them A Means Of Expression And They Become A Necessary Form Of Fuel For Its Activity.

As Far As The Game Of Marbles Is Concerned, There Is Therefore No Contradiction Between The Egocentric Practice Of Games And The Mystical Respect Entertained For Rules. This Respect Is The Mark Of A Mentality Fashioned, Not By Free Cooperation Between Equals, But By Adult Constraint.

The Principal Goal Of Education Is To Create Men Who Are Capable Of Doing New Things, Not Simply Of Repeating What Other Generations Have Done-men Who Are Creative, Inventive, And Discovers. The Second Goal Of Education Is To Form Minds Which Can Be Critical, Can Verify, And Not Accept Everything They Are Offered.

Children Require Long, Uniterrupted Periods Of Play And Exploration