“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
