[The Infant System by Samuel Wilderspin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Infant System CHAPTER IX 39/76
But another thing is wanting before it can be called successful, that is, it must be understood. None can understand it but thinkers, and deep thinkers, and thinkers in the right direction.
Merely to glance around and gather scraps of knowledge from the various, "ologies" in existence, which the "march of intellect" has brought into being, and which were unknown to our forefathers; and then to force them on the young memory at random, may be to teach what was not before taught, but it is not to display any _new method of teaching; any more efficient way of communicating knowledge_.
Those who would truly understand the infant system, must think for themselves, and observe the workings of the young mind, mark the intellectual principles which first develope themselves, strive to understand the simple laws of mental action; and all this that they may know how to teach in accordance with them.
When this is fairly done, perhaps the whole that is recorded in this book, may be thought more valuable than it is at present, and be found a not unworthy subject to devote a whole life to become acquainted with and elucidate both practically and theoretically.
Others then will, perhaps, not be quite so audacious in unjust plagiarisms.
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