“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.'”
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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.
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.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
