With our foolish and pedantic methods we are always preventing children from learning what they could learn much better by themselves, while we neglect what we alone can teach them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Emile (Original work 1762; English translation 1911), Book Ii. Translated from French by Barbara Foxley. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5427/5427-h/5427-h.htm
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