The end which education ought to aim at achieving is the very end which the teacher labours unceasingly to defeat.

The teacher may, indeed, contend that his business is not to evoke faculty but to impart knowledge.

The answer to this argument is that the type of education which impedes the outgrowth of faculty is necessarily fatal to the acquisition of knowledge.

For the teacher can no more impart knowledge to his pupils than a nurse can impart flesh and blood to her charges.

What the teacher imparts is information, just as what the nurse imparts is food; and until information has been converted into knowledge the child is as far from being educated as the infant, whose food remains unassimilated, is from being nourished.