Wings and the Child: Or, The Building of Magic Cities

By: Nesbit, E.

"WHAT," we ask with anxious gravity, "what is the best sort of teaching for children?" One might as sanely ask what is the best sort of spectacles for men, or the best size in gloves for women. And the blind coarse generalisation which underlies that question is the very heart and core of the muddled, musty maze we call education. We talk of the best sort of education for children, as we might talk of the best sort of polish for stoves, the best sort of nourishment for mice. Stoves are all alike, they vary in ugliness perhaps, but the iron soul of one is as the iron soul of the other. The polish that is good for one is good for all. Mice may, and do, vary in size and colour; their mousehood does not vary, nor their taste for cheese. In the inner nature, in the soul and self of it, each child is different from any other child, and the education that treats children as a class and not as individual human beings is the education whose failure is bringing our civilisation about our ears even as we speak.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08YJ36K6C
• ISBN13: 9798718838961
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"