¶ Education
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Education:
"We are also going to give you a 1 and 2 and 3. We give you what we call an elementary education that is to say consisting of elementary ‘bits and pieces’ of education. You can forget the universe. . . ‘With enough elements you may be able to build up a body of knowledge, but it will always be a small body and a poor exchange for the fascinating and progressively coordinated apprehension and comprehension of universe which you as a child had always been spontaneously prone to deal and reason with before we caught sight of your natural brilliance and snared you in our education trap.’
“I propose that we now start our education exactly the other way. Let us return to the universe as our starting point in all problem consideration. We assiduously avoid all the imposed disciplines of progressive specialization. We depend entirely upon our innate facilities, the most important of which is our intuition and test our progressive intuitions with experiments.”
