Show 8 itself that so at least what you are talking about” he may know 2 i He states further that there is no substitute for actual experience because: lessons which scholars learn from each other in a legeyard are one hundred times more useful to them than col- - all that will ever be told them in the classroom Eosseau urged the teacher of youth especially of children from I : i five to twelve years of age to: let M ! let them run and them be taken out frolic and fall daily into the open down a hundred meadow There times a day11 I Even i after the age of reason1 has been reached a reliance on i I things or objects rather than books and ideas was important: save i fIn general never substitute the sign for the thing itself when it is impossible to show the thing for the sign absorbs the interest of the child and represented r M makes him forget the thing being 5 Rousseau Emile m de Education (translated by W H Payne as Emile or Education According to Nature : New York: Appleton- - j J 1908) Century-Crof- ts 3 Ibid p Ibid pp Slbid p 57 43-- 44 141 p 137 L1 |