The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people
how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind
of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child
plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating
is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a
mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original
thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
Thomas Edison
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