The spontaneous wish to learn, which every normal child possesses, as shown in its efforts to walk and talk, should be the driving-force in education. The substitution of this driving-force for the rod is one of the great advances of our time.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 1: Postulates of Modern Educational Theory
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