The Bible does. One might agree that theologically Mason is wrong in her refusal to believe in original sin or total depravity. But one might then determine that what really matters are Mason's educational ideas and methods, which seem good in and of themselves, never minding her theology. One such educational method of Mason's is testing a child's comprehension through narration. After a child reads or listens to hundreds of pages per week, which is what Mason advocates, he then tells or writes back what he has just heard or read.
Narration replaces quizzes, tests, drills, worksheets and homework.
Thus, motivators such as grades, exhibitions, scholarships, rewards, praise, and punishment are taboo, equated with encouraging greed and vanity and inducing fear. However, if the teacher is the parent, and the child is young and still at home, Mason suddenly makes the parents' role as teachers immensely important, claiming it is they who determine their child's thoughts and actions, which Mason believes to be based all on habit. Habit, in the hands of the mother, is as his wheel to the potter, his knife to the carver the instrument by means of which she turns out the design she has already conceived in her brain. . . . Physiologists tell us of the adaptation of brain structures to habitual lines of thought i.e., to our habits. It is this second sentence that warrants special attention.