Now, you won’t be feeding the child with a spoon. You’ll be asking her to dig a little deeper, to do more discovering on her own. Instead of lecturing, you’ll concentrate on carrying on a dialogue with your child, a conversation in which you guide her toward the correct conclusions, while permitting her to find her own way. You’ll allow the child to disagree with your conclusions, if she can support her points with the facts. And you’ll expect her not simply to repeat what she’s read, but to rework the material to reflect her own thoughts. Once she’s done this, she’ll have learned the material
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