Above all, make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
If we get education right, it won’t bring about an earthly paradise. But it would mean that we were being serious about living and thinking and understanding ourselves; it would mean that we were paying our children the compliment of assuming that they were serious too; and it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins in delight, and the words on the signpost say: “Once upon a time . . .”
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