Alice Duer Miller Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942
Birthday: July 28
Death: August 22
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
topic: Education, Children, Mean, Unschooling, Scholastics, School Education
