So, in our educational pursuits, our job is to provide the right mental food, and trust to the children’s natural ability to process knowledge and make it a part of themselves. If we devoted our efforts to teaching children how to digest food before we fed them, they would die of starvation, and needlessly, as they are already equipped to digest their meals. If we devote our educational efforts to teaching them “how to learn” before we offer them real knowledge, we starve them intellectually. Their hunger to know is just as real as their hunger for food.
