The child himself must exercise his organs and faculties.

The one thing which no one may ever delegate to another is the business of growing.

To watch another person eating will not nourish one's own body.

To watch another person using his limbs will not strengthen one's own.

The forces that make for the child's growth come from within himself; and it is for him, and him alone, to feed them, use them, evolve them.
All this is-- "As true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth." But it sometimes happens that what is most palpable is least perceptible; and perhaps it is because the truth of what I say is self-evident and indisputable, that in many Elementary Schools in this country the education given seems to be based on the assumption that my "truisms" are absolutely false.