*From Our Philosophy Flow Our Methods*
Especially a good reminder as my last post was on high school...
The core reminder and four quotes (from our last CM Peoria Study Group discussions-Volume 6: Book II, Chapters 1 and 2):
#1 Children are born persons. (encompasses CM's view of the child as a learner)
"One thing at any rate we know with certainty, that no teaching, no information becomes knowledge to any of us until the individual mind has acted upon it, translated it, transformed, absorbed it, to reappear, like our bodily food, in forms of vitality. Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature."
"...that stability of mind and magnanimity of character... are the proper outcome and the unfailing test of a Liberal Education."
"I feel strongly that to attempt to work this method without a firm adherence to the few principles laid down would not only be idle but disastrous."
"If we work for public examinations, the questions in which must be of a narrow academic cast, we get a narrow, accurate, somewhat sterile type of mind. We reap as we have sown."
