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“Living books and ideas (a broad curriculum, putting the mind of the child in the way of great minds, informing thoughts and concepts that serve to feed the mind). The three instruments of education working together provide the proper environment in which to breathe and learn (atmosphere), the habits necessary for self-control and regulation (discipline), and the delightful mind-stuff of a broad curriculum (life).

“In the midst of all this is the unfortunate teacher whose passion for learning and motivation for teaching is brought captive to tests and exams that control the destiny of her students and herself as well! As Alfie Kohn has stated, “Every hour that teachers feel compelled to try to raise test scores is an hour not spent helping kids become critical, creative, curious thinkers.”

“atmosphere in which a child gathers his unconscious ideas of right living emanates from his parents. Every look of gentleness and tone of reverence, every word of kindness and act of help, passes into the thought-environment, the very atmosphere which the child breathes; ….they excite that vague appetency . . . toward things sordid or things lovely, things earthly or divine.”