Education is not a perfection in the accomplishment of habits of blind obedience and prescribed diligence, but a preparation for independant action The teachers function is to train pupils in habits of accurate observation, not in the memorization of words. However true those words might be, they have no reality for the student unless based on his own perceptions. Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon. For eternally and always there is only Now, the present is the only thing that has no end. To know is to do.
Experience is the only teacher.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. The word is not the thing. The difficulty that beginners find in the study of science is due to the large amount of technical detail which has been allowed to accumulate in the elementary textbooks, obscuring the important ideas. The governing metaphor of the school should be student as worker rather than the more familair metaphor of teacher as deliverer of instructional services.