“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.” ChildrenEducationFireSuppression Author:Alice Duer Miller
“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.” TryingFirstsMeanChildrenInterestNaturalEducationLearningCuttingSpecialDiversityRootsFunctionDifficultySocial JusticeCuriosityEducationalCoachingArtificialCommonplaceSchoolingSchooledUnschoolingSchool EducationScholastics Author:Alice Duer Miller
“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world” WorldWellsChildrenFactsHelpingFeelingsMotherWallCircumstancesConcernedCooksHomeworkInner WorldWhooping Cough Author:Alice Duer Miller
