Education is a Self-Product

In The Art Spirit is a collection of notes and fragments of letters and lectures to students of the artist Robert Henri. I recently found a copy of this at a local bookstore and stumbled across some very inspirational passages about teaching and learning:

We are all different; we are to do different things and see different life. Education is a self-product, a matter of asking questions and getting the best answers we can get.

We read a book, a novel, any book, we are interested in it to the degree we find in it answers to our questions.

When the teacher is continually author both of the question and its answer, it is not as likely the answer will sink deep and get into service, as it will if the question is asked by the child.

What a powerful — and poetic — statement about ENGAGEMENT of the learner… and this was written in 1923.

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