The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain....
The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation :-(
― Thomas A. Edison
HBW!! the background bokeh is lespedeza, 'Little Volcano'
variegated eastern redbud, 'Floating Clouds', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain....
The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation :-(
― Thomas A. Edison
HBW!! the background bokeh is lespedeza, 'Little Volcano'
variegated eastern redbud, 'Floating Clouds', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina