What Jane Addams thinks about education

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American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935); Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1931; author of Democracy and Social Ethics.

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1. c. 1902

   Our readingSchools stressing only reading and writing undervalue children's ordinary experience

   patience

   Their wordsWe are impatient with the schools which lay all stress on reading and writing, suspecting them to rest upon the assumption that the ordinary experience of life is worth little, and that all knowledge and interest must be brought to the children through the medium of books.

   ↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book