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"I think that anything we want to do to help people has got to be something they ask for when they want it. The appetites of humanity for information are very closely linked up with other chromosome initiatives. . . Children ask extraordinarily beautiful questions. They’re famous for it. There’s no family that doesn’t have experience with a child really asking startlingly good questions, that the family can’t answer. And the fact that the family can’t answer it, this is the time that they really want to know. The kids are asking about the Sun and the Stars, and they want to understand the atoms and the grown-ups can’t tell them. The point is that they want to be able to learn for themselves: what they need to know; where to find it. And if you can answer them, they’ll develop very rapidly. I don’t think humanity understands this self-teaching process.
“Every child is a laboratory.” . . . I wouldn’t start with getting rid of schools. I would start with how to accommodate what needs to be accommodated. I am convinced that life, as born, has many more faculties than has ever been recognized and will grow very, very rapidly if given the chance,"
