It is no doubt right that the teacher should take steps to test the industry of his pupils; but the information which the child has always to keep at the call of his memory, in order that he may give it back on demand in the form in which he has received it, is the equivalent of food which its recipient has not been allowed to digest.
The confusion between information and knowledge lies at the heart of the religion, as well as of the education, of the West.

In this, as in other matters, the training of the child by his teacher has been modelled on the supposed training of Man by God.

It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the whole scheme of salvation by mechanical obedience is pivoted on the assumed identity of information and knowledge.

In both the schools which Man has attended three things have always been taken for granted.

The first is that salvation depends upon right knowledge of God.