Our Great Mistake In Education Is ... The Worship Of Book-learning-the Confusion Of Instruction And Education. We Strain The Memory Instead Of Cultivating The Mind. ... We Ought To Follow Exactly The Opposite Course With Children-to Give Them A Wholesome Variety Of Mental Food, And Endeavour To Cultivate Their Tastes, Rather Than To Fill Their Minds With Dry Facts.

-John Lubbock

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Our Great Mistake In Education Is ...

John Lubbock

Our Great Mistake In Education Is ... The Worship Of Book-learning-the Confusion Of Instruction And Education. We Strain The Memory Instead Of Cultivating The Mind. ... We Ought To Follow Exactly The Opposite Course With Children-to Give Them A Wholesome Variety Of Mental Food, And Endeavour To Cultivate Their Tastes, Rather Than To Fill Their Minds With Dry Facts.

Topic

Education

Memories

Children

Earth And Sky, Woods And Fields, Lakes And Rivers, The Mountain And The Sea, Are Excellent Schoolmasters, And Teach Some Of Us More Than We Can Ever Learn From Books.

Education

Teacher

Nature