Axioms and Paradoxes of Education

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Some teachers have given the law on school reorganization a rather narrow interpretation, viewing it as a signal to kill their pupils' desire to go on to college. In fact, they seem to take an "over my dead body!" attitude in opposing the natural inclinations of adolescents to do research and continue at a higher school without any interruption. In some instances, sad to say, these teachers have been successful. Pupils' circles of young mathematicians, physicists, chemists, radio technicians, biologists, and naturalists are on the wane. Hurriedly organized in their stead are woodworking shops or special schoolchildren's shops to make clips, stationary items, and so on. These are useful occupations, of course, but one orientation should not be permitted to develop at the expense of another. We need not only good workers, technicians and engineers, but scientists and scholars as well, and they should be developed from an early age. The preparation of a mathematician, for example, ought to begin when he is about seven or eight years old.

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