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It Is Sentimentalism To Assume That The Teaching Of Life Can Always Be Fitted To The Child's Interests, Just As It Is Empty Formalism To Force The Child To Parrot The Formulas Of Adult Society. Interests Can Be Created And Stimulated.

Education Must, Be Not Only A Transmission Of Culture But Also A Provider Of Alternative Views Of The World And A Strengthener Of The Will To Explore Them.

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.

In Time, And As One Comes To Benefit From Experience, One Learns That Things Will Turn Out Neither As Well As One Hoped Nor As Badly As One Feared.

Organizing Facts In Terms Of Principles And Ideas From Which They May Be Inferred Is The Only Known Way Of Reducing The Quick Rate Of Loss Of Human Memory.