Not More After you fall into a habit of accepting what other people tell you to think you lose the power to think for yourself. The good thinker can take his time because he can tolerate uncertainty, he can stand not knowing. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is too important to be left solely to educators.
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. Whatever their claims, schools are training most young people to be habitually subservient. The greatest harm done by schools and departments of education is not in what they teach or fail to teach those who are studying to become educators. The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must taught to think.