Though they may come to learn not to do this if they want to avoid detention or lines, the value of good acts is something that ultimately they have to come to see for themselves. Some boy s definition of a horse. Forty teeth, namely twenty four grinders, four eye teeth, and twelve incisive. Hoofs hard but requiring to be shod with iron. Of course the irony is that Sissy Jupe does not recognise this description of a horse although she can probably ride and take care of a horse better than Bitzer will ever be able to.
Instruction plays a large role in today's education system.
Pupils learn how to do things but not how to think for themselves. While students learn theory after theory and definition after definition from course books and teachers, this does not mean that they are capable of being critical in their own thoughts or of making value judgements. This has a profound influence for the education of children in ethics and aesthetics. We cannot learn these things like learning a skill, how to practice wood -work or how to bake a cake. A skill is something you can do over and over again according to a set of rules or a formula.