But I need not take pains to prove that education, as it is conducted in Western countries, is profoundly repugnant to the natural instincts of the healthy child.

For that is precisely what it is intended to be.

The idea of a child enjoying his "lessons" is foreign to the genius of the West.

Dominated as he is by the inherited conviction that Man's nature is corrupt and that his instincts are evil, the Western teacher has set himself the task of doing violence to the child's instinctive tendencies, of thwarting his inborn desires, of working against the grain of his nature.

He has expected the child to rebel against this _regime_, and he has welcomed his rebellion as a proof of the corruption of Man's nature, and therefore of the soundness of the traditional philosophy of education.
But if education is hateful to the child, how is he to be induced to submit to being educated?
Some co-operation on his part will be necessary.