Reply #2: "I am not teaching the children. I am permitting them to learn.”

[mzteris]

Exactly!

edit to add this from the last para:

"Children’s lives are more than products that must be molded until they adapt well to society, or to another school, or to the work force. As it is now, a child’s life is very much bound up with schools and schooling, and that animating force that gives life to each child is ignored.” Today she still holds that her work was not in vain. “You’re all well adjusted and happy. And all of you are close to one another. What else could I possibly want?” "