Inspiration

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught: The teacher is not an instructor or task-master, he is a helper and a guide. His business is to suggest and not to impose.
The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth: The idea of hammering the child into the shape desired by the parent or teacher is a barbarous and ignorant superstition. It is he himself who must be induced to expand in accordance with his own nature.
The third principle of education is to work from the near to the far, from that which is to that which shall be.