“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe, ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
