I Never Taught Language For The Purpose

People Seldom See The Halting And Painful Steps By Which The Most Insignificant Success Is Achieved.

The Processes Of Teaching The Child That Everything Cannot Be As He Wills It Are Apt To Be Painful Both To Him And To His Teacher.

Language Grows Out Of Life, Out Of Its Needs And Experiences. 828

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.

Too Often, I Think, Children Are Required To Write Before They Have Anything To Say. Teach Them To Think And Read And Talk Without Self-repression, And They Will Write Because They Cannot Help It.