“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
