We'd be sending a child who is out of control out of our sight. But if the office is called and someone comes and retrieves the child, so that the teaching can go on and later the problem can be dealt with, there's more of a chance we ll have the kind of classroom and school community that we all desire. Our society s way of thinking is one barrier. Everybody who affects education policy needs to think differently about children. And it grows some out of the American notion that everything can be done instantaneously.
Development takes time.
And we just don't like to take time. We want quick solutions. It's going to be a tough job, but it has to be done. And all of you, everybody in education, has to begin to help other people understand that development is important. Children don't come here with a guidebook and with the motivation to live by that guidebook.