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Show Education. What Is education? Emerson says that the greatest teacher is not the teacher who supplies the pupil with the most facts, but the one in whose presence the pupil becomes a better person. The great secret of educa tion lies in respecting the wants of the pupil. It is not for us to say whai another shall know or even do That part of the game of life is chosen and foreordained and the pupil alone holds the key to his own needs Emerson begs us to respect the child He re iterates his plea to respect and wait and see the new product of nature develop We are not to be too much the pupil's parent We are not to be too often In his solitude We are to let him alone Give the pupil an op portunity to exercise and express his every faculty, and then hands off! |