It inspires self-reliance, disciplines the mind to think for itself, accustoms it to express its own conclusions in its own chosen language, leads to clear and comprehensive forms of expression, gives decision and confidence, and tends to produce individuality of thought and character.
This quote highlights the benefits of a self-directed education system that fosters individuality and confidence.
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Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.