I'd Rather Break Stones On The King's

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 The Child Is Left To Himself, He Will Think More And Better, If Less Showily. Let Him Go And Come Freely, Let Him Touch Real Things And Combine His Impressions For Himself.

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

No Matter How Mistaken Communist Ideas May Be, The Experience And Knowledge Gained By Trying Them Out Have Given A Tremendous Impetus To Thought And Imagination.

It Is A Rare Privilege To Watch The Birth, Growth, And First Feeble Struggles Of A Living Mind; This Privilege Is Mine.