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[T]he teacher's duty may be said to consist, in large measure, in the correcting of the pupils' mistakes and in the dispelling of their illusions, but it does not follow, on this account, that the teacher is to play iconoclast and spend his time in endeavoring to make young children see the truth through adult eyes.

[E]very little bit of truth that the growing mind discovers for itself has more real value than many times the quantity if fed to it. There is a development of self-reliance and originality in discovery that is seldom attained in systematic instruction.